Tales of Material Flows: Architecture for Ever-Changing Time Being

This essay follows building life cycles and material flows, jumping between timelines, geolocations and scales to explore the ecological complexities of adaptive and material reuse practices. The narrative unfolds around a subjective selection of projects that navigate between the craving for architectural endurance, everlasting stability and resource-conscious design while tuning into ever-changing social needs, environmental uncertainties, usage fluctuations and embedded material fragilities. The stories explore the processes that upkeep, maintain, repair, shift, deteriorate and future-proof constructed landscapes, buildings and their parts.