Introduction.

This academic year I intend to concentrate my thesis research upon the methodologies that inform how additions or 'interventions', a term by which they are more commonly referred, can be practically articulated in regards to an existing context; primarily concerning how tectonics and materiality are the physical tools used to articulate this response.

Additionally this research will also encompass what informs this practical response in the first instance, including the narratives that transpire from the accommodation of activity that, in the end, is the cause of the physical articulation of architecture that has evolved primarily to accommodate need.

Beyond these accepted and objective notions I also hope to explore the notion of perception and association including why in the first instance we might perceive or accept an existing built situation as historic and worth conserving in the first instance.

By studying built precedents, specific theoretical writing and the philosophy of perception I hope to gain an understanding how methodologies have been established and articulated. Regarding a practical response a disused brickworks in Bursledon, Hampshire will then form the vehicle or existing context within which I can physically test my subsequent ideas and conclusions.