Palimpsest

The final word I had picked out of the brief was 'palimpsest'. I had come across this in my previous studies so had a vague idea of what it was, a manuscript/parchment that can be cleared of its original documentation in order to be re-used.

I wasn't too sure how this related to the project so thought there must be more to it, re-researching it I found the same descriptions as what I already thought, that it was a manuscript/parchment to which the original writing is effaced/erased ir order to be used again. So I therefore thought about how this could be translated in terms of buildings and interior design. As interior designers we remodel urban fabric in order to create meaningful interventions in existing buildings and spaces. So we in fact take a space that was originally used for something else and re-use it to create something new. This is how I interpret the use of the word palimpsest for this project.