Charia Athienitis
I believe that cities and towns with high historical importance must be treated differently in order to maintain and honour the past of these urban contexts while also allowing them to prosper. It is no longer possible to ignore the urgent need to reduce the careless cycle of construction and demolition of historic contexts in the built environment. The historic fabric and heritage plays an important role for urban contexts that have a richness of heritage assets in todays robust world.
In this project I have attempted to re-use an important ancient monument in Dover, Fort Burgoyne and give it a new future and purpose as the New Museum of Dover through new structures that evoke lost historic buildings that once existed in Dover.
Through the use of the new structures in the existing building and how they all negotiate with the changing level, it allowed me to subvert the standard of the museum’s linear progression and use the new buildings as disruptors enabling the visitor rise to a different time in history through the vertical circulation and view exhibits from a different era. This way the building becomes a museum within a museum of things in a space that itself is a museum.
This project aims to offer the possibility in the future not only to bring attention and awareness to the importance of Dover’s history but also to allow future generations experience the lost Dover through the museum, and let the building be again an important asset for the socioeconomic sector in Dover.
Contact Charia Athienitis
- Phone
- +35797623277
- chariaathi@gmail.com
- @lenskingloop