A newly completed building may express the architect’s aspirations in its pristine state, however, would immediately subject to numerous forces that slowly bring it down. While we commonly ignore, or even deny, such natural process, namely decay, through great effort of maintenance, there are always too many unforeseeable and unpredictable agents that lead our endeavor in vain.

I see material and building aging not as a deterioration process, but indeed a process of how the materials and components change their norms and meaning through time. Like wine accumulating value through time, so could architecture gains an additional layer of value, e.g. textural, spatial effect or even memory, through weathering and usages.

The project involves a soon-to-be exhausted copper mine, Ruashi mine, in Lubumbashi, D.R.Congo. By the time 2020, the mine would be left as an huge urban void next surrounded by the rapidly expanding city.