Lost Memory Archive — An Architecture of the Absent

This project proposes an exhibition annex sited in Lincoln’s Inn Fields, developed through a study of Aldo Rossi’s ideas on memory, absence, and urban form. The design engages with a spatial void within the site, framing it as a place of “absence” rather than activity. The annex is the final design project throughout my study at the University of Edinburgh, which hosts London That Never Was, an exhibition of unrealised architectural proposals, drawing on archival material from the RIBA collection. The project explores architecture as a form of memory, combining archive, theatre, and promenade into a continuous spatial sequence. Developed across multiple scales, the design integrates concrete frame structures with brick infill, using sectional studies to explore how material, light, and circulation shape spatial experience.