ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the impact attentiveness to time may have on the architectural design process. It develops stories around a series of images on site, stitching overlapping, resonating narratives, expanding, and uncovering the site of construction in other ways. The stories prioritise the many people involved and the relationships they develop and their connection to building and dwelling in time and place. Bonds are created, liaisons and common interests encountered, and links made. Memories of the building, as new, in the 1970s are explored and dissected as a new home is emerging. This work highlights the importance of time and the messy, feminine, everyday process of getting to know each other, running alongside a more formal economic and practical process of building where everything is mapped out and kept to time, or is it? These effects spill over into the formal. The images show the intensities and banalities of common experiences and strange encounters and the lingering resonance of past events. The human time of the building site becomes interwoven with the biological and geological temporalities and a conception of site as the encounter of temporalities emerges. This conception points to a radical transformation or deepening in our conception of architecture, as in equal dialogue with life as it is lived.
