I believe that history holds power over how we rewrite spaces. My interior design work throughout my undergraduate degree explores this through the adaptive reuse of overlooked or neglected sites. I am interested in how the past can be used and spatial narratives can be rewritten to form positive spaces that support communities.

Rendered perspective by Katie Gardiner showing a private reflection space in the graveyard where a women is sat on a seat looking at the gabion memory wall.

My final year project, (Re)Remembering, reimagines Wymondham Abbey’s graveyard as a living landscape where memory and community intertwine. It responds to the gradual neglect of the site by introducing sensitive interventions that invite public engagement while respecting its existing context. A series of memory gardens, reflection pools and gathering spaces offer a new community centred form of remembrance. Allowing for both gathering and private self-reflection. Material reuse and sustainability is central to my design process, with gabion walls, recycled concrete and glass forming a layered landscape that reflects the ongoing rewriting of memory over time.

The axonometric shows all of the key spatial programmes of the design including the glass post path for way finding, the collective and private reflection spaces, memory gardens, and reflection pools.
This render depicts the central space for gathering and collective memory, to be used as a place for the community to congregate. The memory walls act as living archives for loved ones memories to be placed.
This section shows the entirety of the design with its surrounding context of the Abbey.