The final installation created for this thesis research culminated in a physical construction of the Cultural Memory of the US Custom House. Three layers of drawings were hung from a selfdesigned and self-constructed apparatus secured to the ceiling.
The outermost layer is holds the future design of the US Custom(s) House. The historic, thick perimeter walls have poche in order to reinforce the design move to open up the interior of the building as a public gathering space and thoroughfare.
The original drawings at 1/8�:1’ scale of the 1901 Custom House design were became the base layer, the originating story of the building layered over on transparency film are the current 2011 drawings of the Custom House, with its additions and deletions.
This final installation brought the design full circle, and through representation media was able to physically illustrate the concept of Cultural Memory as being not only by the history of the building but also its contemporary situation.
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