We examine the built environment in its capacity to serve as a resource for architectural projects. In doing so, we understand buildings as the perpetual convergence of diverse materials, components, and constructions—each inscribing its own temporality, and consequentially its own qualitative and structural implications. An architectural project ceases being a complete entity, and becomes an assemblage of components of different permanence. Building then, is understood as a verb.
By considering the individual components of a building as codependent layers, we can develop adaptive strategies for interventions and transformations. This requires rethinking both the construction of the new and the engagement with the existing in relation to the multiple temporalities that traverse a building. This processual perspective foregrounds transformative potential and allows for the redefinition of established categories such as material, construction, atmosphere, and space.