This project emerges from an exploration of memory as something layered and continually rewritten over time. Through early tectonic interpretations, themes of residue, palimpsest, memory, and traces began to shape my approach. The design developed as a series of moments where traces of the past are retained, and new interventions are inserted in a careful and responsive manner.
Situated in Grangemouth, a town shaped by cycles of industry, growth, and decline, the proposal responds to both its material history and its uncertain future. Drawing from the tectonic themes as well as Grangemouth’s history in dye-making, the proposal introduces a textile printing and dyeing space alongside communal and cultural programmes, reinterpreting the town’s legacy of making.
Across this portfolio, the work unfolds through processes of marking, layering, dyeing, fixing, and weathering. In addition to reflecting material techniques in the process of dyeing, these stages also reflect ways of thinking about architecture as something that records and adapts over time.
