Faculty: Jean Jaminet
 
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The traditional belief within the architectural discipline considers that the physical state of architecture represents a sense of permanence and prestige unwavering due to time or conditions. Yet, in the context of preservation, architecture reveals itself as fragile and susceptible, dependent on those willing to preserve it. Even so, the preservation process relies on documentation and data collection through images and drawings. Yet, what happens from a lack of preservation or the absence of data in an architectural context? How do these effects result in the paradoxical relationship between neglected and preserved? This project explores the experimental preservation practices at this intersection of these two conditions, resulting in the material effects of procedural degradation. Rather than this image being defined by a singular state of the building, this process occurs over the course of time, altering its initial perception and leaving a sense of digital residue.