Patricia Lung

Saint Peter’s Seminary is a relic of time. Its architectural language along with the Epistemological societal shift endagered’ the building’s identity and function. The perpetural failure of various organisations to re-adapt the once monastic structure leading to its long history of decay. To respond to the estate’s isolationist identity and to the cricis of climate change, a sustainable Ecocentric framework was devised to rejuvenate the area and recreate the meaning of adaptive re-use. Thus, a self-sufficient infrastructure was devised where an environmentally concious community could redevelop its identity through ecocentric education, research and art. Saint Peter’s Seminary thus becoming an environmental and cultural hub. To promote an understanding of the rite of time, the exterior of the existing building is allowed to decay, celebrating the passing of time while the interior intervention carves into the building creating a modern nucleus with atriums, exhibition spaces and art & workspaces alike.

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Saint Peter's Rite of Time