An architectural project that re-purposes a housing building in Schöneberg, Berlin into a home for children care. The research behind it explores how the act of “repair” involves its participants through constant processes of caring and maintenance. The project seeks to invite the children to care, decide and therefore, repair.
Early memories in one’s life are not particularly about space, but they happen around it. For many of the ones that had the privilege to have a home, the memory of home is the one that follows later experiences in life. It is worth noting that when thinking of home, it cannot be only reduced its spatiality, but is also defined as a situation, an environment. Just as in memories, the space where home is, serves only as an enabler of experiences and relationships.

The way that our present and future experiences have an influence in the past ones is a concept explored by the feminist writer Sarah Ahmed, noting that our orientation— spatial or otherwise — is not only defined by our direction, but also by what is behind us. The relationship between past and present, is further explored by the author Sebastian Olma around the notion of repair as an action of “taking care of a part of the past that reaches into the present. It is taking care as a selection of what we want to continue in the future.” When dealing with a repair-intervention, is interesting to overlay it with the notion of “taking care,” creating a continuous link between the two, but also putting in evidence our potentially active role towards caring for what is happening and that yet to happen.