An Urban Response to ‘Shock’ through the Spatial Transformation of a Wasteland Part 2 Project 2024 Thia Blake University of Lincoln Lincoln | UK In an ever-changing world where conflict seems to be continuously increasing, societies are being left behind and forced to deal with the wastelands that they once called home. Their culture, history and identity erased from their cities, leaving them with only the memories of their past. Architecture can exhibit a place's historical memory; it expresses compassion and acts as evidence that a community’s presence extends into the past and will continue on into the future. This project aims to explore the aftermath of war and provide an architectural response demonstrating compassion and resilience to those affected. It acknowledges the people’s history and reinstates their identity whilst providing a place where cultural artefacts are retained and displayed to ensure their culture and past does not become eradicated all together. It acts as a symbol to those who have lost, as a sign to prove that not all is forgotten, and their history and culture will be remembered long into the future. A museum space is proposed on the border line of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, weaving the two sides together at this location, and removing the artificial concept of a border and threshold. Thia Blake Tutor(s)