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Rural architecture echoes a fixed pre-determined place and time, and thus permanent symbolic position. As laborious foundations to a community’s identity within their initial construction, the buildings and interiors that remain elude to regional and national identity. Interior spaces are established in co-existence with society’s progressed development relying on social, economic and ethical impact to ensure their existence. They are a documentation of time, where heritage invites contemporary interior interventions to heal and extend their narrative of identity. Layers within the macro scale of communal community, micro in the context of individual trace, heritage is the signifier to memory, connection and homage to a place. As direct dialogues to an element of time, they resist demise through relating to things that is not only associated to the building itself.

Place is the binding factor for resolution of interior intervention. This thesis looks into the search for responsible answers to rural interior interventions, to actively encourage participation in securing cultural identity and regeneration. The interior is the main participant in resolving cultural heritage and identity within a built construct. Facades denote an exterior protection but, the interior of an identity resembles its true honesty and integrity. Interiors represent and contain the conflict of growth, the heart of development and the desire to transform.