Can the memories be recreated?

The thesis is investigating the Viennese attitude towards the notion of preservation through the themes of forbidden desires, repression, taboos, unconscious phobias, and nostalgia based on the text ‘The interpretation of Dreams’ from Sigmund Freud's. The approach towards historical buildings is to never demolish or remove always restore. Leaving Vienna overwhelmed by its relics of magnificence and traces of the past.
Topographically, the thesis undertakes the urban artefact -Palais Ferstel situated in the first district of Vienna, which was the middle point of social life.

The building has never changed its form and the pastiche style became a tourist destination; thus this pathological monument appears to be frozen in time.
Engaging with the building's memory the objective is to transform it into a propelling monument, as per Aldo Rossi's theory the monument becomes propelling through adaptations. The thesis will challenge the notion of what we understand by preservation, altering the building by utilizing forbidden concepts and remembering the forgotten.

Existing fabric doing the process of forgetting, bits of building rubbing it out. Slightly remembered as something else. Putting things back in which are sort of furniture that can be removed, forgotten giving the historical building multiple life spams. The fabricated pieces are created using the lost wax technique. Once the mould is made, the wax model is melted and drained away. Impression, making the object in wax an analogy for recreated memory, then melting it away and leaving another impression. The wax is analogy for the lost memory that is replaces with a new one.

Preserving the past is imitating, if the building is restored exactly as the original, it’s always going to be a nostalgic distortion. The past cannot be recreated. It is only forging/counterfeiting of the past which is trying to deceive the present. Therefore, genuine memories/ histories cannot be recreated.