Abandoned potential

An abandoned building contains distinct qualities that cannot be observed in occupied architecture of daily life. However, these distinct qualities are difficult to experience since the moment the building is entered this inhabitation negates, to varying degrees, the very definition of an abandoned building. As a space without regulations and restrictions, when entered an abandoned building can become a transient vehicle fulfilling one’s innate desires. These spaces can play host to a series of alternate functions, limitless experiences and countless possibilities, restricted only by the inhabitant’s imagination. As individual desires and functions occur within the abandoned building, it is possible that these interventions and/or interactions damage the very qualities that we identify as abandoned. How then, might we positively interact with the abandoned qualities encased within these spaces? And, to what degree is it possible that architectural interpretation may preserve and enhance the unique qualities of the abandoned building?