Anjal Shailesh Patel

CR4007

Conservation is a provocative act that engages actively with the built environment as a qausi-object established by the network of material, social, and spatial actions. I believe that conservation of housing has potential to evolve toward the activation or regeneration of expanding possibilities of cultural meanings nurtured within any housing, leading interventions as dialogues and opportunities for feasibility, resilience, and innovation. This action is not merely about preserving the physical form but about enabling continued relevance and functionality in today’s changing modern concepts. Each intervention reflects the evolution of the built environment as it adapts to new uses and emerging needs. This demands innovative interventions which can leverage these changes to enhance the embodied resiliency and adaptability of the built structure. By implanting ecological, social, and economic sustainability, conservation can play a rescuer to ensure that interventions support the ongoing relevance and feasibility of the built environment, balancing preservation with necessary transformation. Nature of multiplicity of a housing provides a medium where past, present, and future coexist cohesively and dynamically, cultivating the quasi-object as an evolving site of interactions, continuously reshaped and remolded by users and context.