All over Europe industrial buildings are falling into disuse. Often this accompanies the general decline of an area

leaving few resources for redevelopment or demolition to change the use of an industrial building to suit the needs of a declining area.

K. Palmer experiments with the technique of editing out parts of the structure of a site to open it up to new

patterns of flow, generating new function.

Initially the old hospice's ground floor had been converted into a factory floor which was extended though the basement of the old hospice

but then was closed off from that building and worked separately making the street level of the older building a

cut off, dead ended cellar. By editing out one of the roofed areas, K. Palmer redistributed the pattern of flow characteristics, creating

a court yard and gallery space, reinvigorating the old hospice by giving it two new access points.

Site of the Usine in Treignac by the river Vezere