Shrotri Pooja Sarang

CR4000

Conservation is an act of responding; to existing conditions, intentions for the present and future and to a past of the built environment that may or may not hold meaning today. It becomes very important in this process to closely read the buildings in question so that the impending layers of their past are revealed through an extensive archival study of the study of the buildings themselves as archives. In this process, appropriate layers that reveal meaning can be used to preserve the memory of the past, its materiality and its relevance for time to come. I prefer minimal material intervention, respecting existing fabric and narratives of the building. Embracing complexity, I acknowledge uncertainty and stay with the trouble which reveals historic layers of the building to find opportunities in the existing conditions of the building by removal of some elements rather than massive additions to the structure. Conservation is a chaos which recalls, remembers and reveals the past!