Requiem for a Futurist offers an alternative history to an architecture embedded with memories that are no longer desirable within its modern context. To achieve this, the project uses the Pergola and Hill Gardens in Hampstead as its site–a location attached to colonial wealth that has been abandoned for almost a hundred years. In response to its ominous and unavoidable past, the project not only confronts the physical architecture of the gardens, but also questions complex issues attached to layered narratives born from multiple occupations of buildings and the ensuing cycles of renewal.

The project presents an alternative history for the building, envisioning a series of three occupants over the fifty years following its original abandonment. The three occupants are chosen due to their proximity to the area, the genuine desire for the space, and their progressive views towards aspects of life that directly counter the existing site.

The fabricated narrative aims to be an entirely plausible account and a genuinely believable alternative to actuality. Each occupancy brings its own desires for the space and its own architectural stylings. The eventual building in the present day serves as a tapestry of a series of imagined uses and moments; each able to be reread and retold through the physical proposal.