LEFTOVERS

Sammanfattning:  Unlike the city calling the project as 'moving city', what actually happening in Kiruna is that demolishing the old part and building a new area. During this process, specific researches were done on each houses by municipality and only few heritages, estimated as culturally valuable, are picked up and will be preserved as it is. On the other hand, individual houses are facing the demolition, since the city wants to give the space back to the nature. However, these "research" overlooks a phenomenological aspect of individual houses, which contains the trace of actual daily life of Kiruna people. And when starting to see from this perspective, all these houses, whether it is aesthetically beautiful or not, are worth to be preserved since these spaces allow a common experience for each family to share, which leads community to form an identity.   According to the city's plan, only some fragments from the houses will be reused for the new house construction such as interior moldings with ornament, window frame, door nob...etc. But I believe that the spacial experience is about going through the aggregate of a space.  In this project, on the top of situation of Kiruna, the new city development and anthropocenical impact of mining, I would like to criticize the current preservation work by exposing the phenomenological value of individual houses with fictional proposal, that is saving the entire "home" in the underground for the future to share the memory with the next generation, rather than breaking it into pieces.