This thesis argues that the primary value of architecture lies in the layers of memory, experience, and meaning over time. It challenges the conventional notion of architecture as a complete and static object, instead proposing it as an evolving condition – a Living Archive, through which meaning emerges from the accumulation of the intangible.
The project reverses that logic through an additive system, introducing a process of continuous accumulation, where architecture grows through contributions made by people over time. The building is composed of repeated geometric elements that are gradually added to the site. Each addition represents a memory contribution, which becomes part of the architectural mass. Through this process, the quarry is slowly rewritten.
