Interior Interruptions examines the role of the ''palimpsest'' and its relationship to narrative, sustainability, design renovation and adaptive reuse. By examining storytelling, palimpsestic characteristics and techniques, the book argues that these devices play a central role in the consideration of the designed interior.
Narrative has a burgeoning relationship with the palimpsest and this approach embraces an aesthetic of incompleteness and imperfection as a site rich response. It recognises the ongoing -biography- of a building as a form of transient architectural narrative that encourages reuse through the continual process of writing, rewriting, overwriting and unwriting. This process has sustainable, societal, archaeological and textual connotations that can be interpreted as a process of -layering- whereby the architectural shell is viewed as a container, a rich repository that is -overlain- by surface changes, documents architectural and spatial modifications,
