From the exhibition website:

“The Keepsake Exhibition explores the questions on the value of preservation and reusability in architectural practice, through the work of 3 architecture studios whose work investigates these concepts in a spectrum. 

In design terms, we might ask how we build an architecture that is not about control over space, but rather, is about living in a complex and diverse social and physical world and responding to that with humility. As well as not seeing existing context as a limitation, but as a latent potential for a design. This requires a rigorous interrogation of what is presently there on a site, what geographic, and ecological contexts are present, what histories and stories were made and are presently being made? Who and what is there, and what are their narratives?” 

Within the two floors of the exhibition space, we created a series of displays containing various types and dimensions of objects, drawings, photographs, and models. The displays were made from the most simple and easily available material, local plywood. We tried to repurpose its tectonic structure in a contemporary way; by giving each display a different, abstract form in relation to the meaning, shape, and size of the item or items they contained. We combined the plywood structures with backgrounds in various colors, which helped the displayed items stand out. In this way, the intervention accentuated the exhibited objects and, at the same time, went along very well with the existing architecture; the exhibition space is made from wooden structures, so the plywood blended very naturally into the surroundings.