Dementia is one of the fastest-growing health challenges in the United Kingdom, yet most care environments remain generic, requiring individuals to adapt to unfamiliar settings as their condition progresses. This project challenges that approach through the story of the architect's grandfather, Luigi, who has lived in his Wood Green home since 1971. Despite his dementia, he continues to navigate the house with ease, demonstrating how the body retains spatial routines long after other memories begin to fade.

The proposal leaves Luigi’s home unchanged whilst transforming the vacant mirror-image house next door into a home for his carer. As Luigi’s perception of time gradually shifts backwards, the adjacent house reconstructs familiar places, routines and media from earlier decades, creating an architectural stage set that aligns with his understanding of time rather than forcing him to conform to the present.

Recognising the difficulty of realising such a project at a full architectural scale, the proposal is condensed into the Memory Cabinet, a miniature architecture of reminiscence that reconstructs personal memories as environments that can be opened, explored and shared.