Architecture is no less a construct of its experiences than we are. The built environment is not just a stage we dance upon, rather an actor in its own right, and perhaps the most consequential of them all. As billions of lives unfold across the globe, people push and pull against their environments, shaping space as it shapes ourselves, and producing currents of habitation that draw us to unique urban identities, or push us to form new ones. In this way, architecture and the built environment become a direct manifestation of societies intangible qualities as it guides and records our steps, whether that be along a path we want to walk or not.

In turn a house no longer represents just an individual or a group but their relationship within this temporal web of society. This project investigates this chronology, and the way in which we etch ourselves into our world, while also allowing the viewer to manipulate the order of history and build new speculative journeys using the vessel of an antipodean terrace house.

The stories presented in each block printed frame denote history while remaining untethered from its specificities. Therefore, as their order is constructed and altered the relationship between the character and terrace morphs to reflect its historical context. In this way the multifaceted perspectives and memory held by this terrace is presented without the overarching narrative imbued by authorship. Like the building, the work seeks to act as a voyeur rather than voicer of history, recording attempted objectivity through its over interpretability. Whether its etchings have recorded the history of a terrace or the history of myself is yet to be resolved.