Memories, intricately woven with our emotions, biases, and uncertain encounters under which they resurface, continuously evolving with our prompt, subjective recollection. This project seeks to harness individual reinterpretation, re-appropriation of functions, overlaying the subjectiveness of these, knitting them into an intersection of collective human/nature experience as a means of reparation for its lost resources.
Bridgeport, Connecticut, has been a manufacturing stronghold since 1836 and is a clear example of how American industrial cities have grown and fallen. After reaching its peak in the early-20th century, the city was desolated, leaving voids in the form and function of industrial structures that serve as reminders of the Bridgport’s past. That sculptural existence allows human/wildlife to decide how it should be used, attended or unattended.
This project aims not only to preserve the memories tied to these transitions but also asks: How can we celebrate Bridgeport’s collective identity, repair and fill the voids in the city’s infrastructure, and celebrate its natural heritage by inventing programs that mutate with future uncertainties, to retrofit the form and function of the structures, offering a glimpse into the shared human/nature experiences that define and enrich the communal tapestry?
