Our cities expand at a fast pace and only express the “now” and the “future”. The role of the past – that of memory (both of the near and the far) has been retired. Rehabbing the old, the forlorn, the dilapidated and the unused built structures would be more sustainable and perhaps more viable economically. To recharge these structures from cradle-to-grave, we need to instill a new program, while retaining “it’s” features which would yet preserve our link to “A” past. This studio inquires in to the classical authoritarian relationship between the outside and the inside, where architecture - the outside is always dominant and interior - the inside is always subjugated. The subsequent processes would lead to premises, wherein the interior interventions and alterations, MAY choose to, operate as their own enterprise independently. As Picasso said, “Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist”. We will first, record, analyse and understand the significance before proposing programmatic interventions and operative stands. This studio offers to look at methods that generate a thematic language to either CANNIBALISE or CO-EXIST as an operative stand.

Errol Reubens & Ratna Shah, CEPT University, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023