What would it look like if we treated architectural objects as artefacts within a museum?

Carlingford: Town Museum is a town which has become a self-descriptive museum. Urban fragments and episodes are collected and built into the present spatial environment, paying attention to the leftovers of the world and equipping them with dignity. Past values and past meanings can be read within the fabric of the town. Carlingford becomes a pedagogical space, comprised of ambiguous and un-defined remnants of the past, open to interpretation and misinterpretation.
The Town Museum does not discriminate between fragments, placing both official histories, and the ‘insignificant’ on equal footing, preserving a myriad of histories regardless of status.

The Urban environment becomes a place where all histories can be read.

Buildings in the Town museum are not hygienic or clean in their design; they are messy, anachronistic and highly contextual. The urban forms do not exist as hermetic, neatly sealed packages which will exist forever, but become sedimentations of cultural memory. The urban forms exist not as one building, instead through a collection of meanings they become multiple: embodiments of all the past forms of the site compounded into a collage building.

The town museum consists of a series of walkways, spanning between objects within the museum: exposing them and allowing them to be understood in novel ways. The walkways frame each site as an exhibition case would and encourages the visitor to consider urban histories.

On top of each site sits an intervention: each proposal within the town museum acting as a room within the larger museum: a gift shop, a viewing point or an exhibition room. The architectures of each of these interventions are extrapolated from the unique identities of the architectures which they sit upon.

The town museum project encouraged me to question the ways in which we determine and consider architectural history. Through a variety of mediums I was able to explore these questions in architectural form to propose a method of approaching and preserving architectural histories.