Traces

Contexts have changed since its construction; geopolitical, societal, ... It's functioning is changing. This results in many matters being absent from the building: past lives, practices, objects, instruments. But traces of them can be found. Holes, lay-outs, stories, scratches. A listing of traces and what they refer to.

• Bedrock squares in basement -> placement of seismograph (correct this please:-) )

Connection to bedrock, sub-basement

Connection to bedrock, sub-basement

• Slits in domes with rolling shutters -> where telescopes were looking through roof

Former telescope shutter

• Circle of new floorboards in pantry. -> Former place for supporting colomn for dome, which also pierced through the current library on 1st floor.

New floorboards

• Vegetation and animals -> new life in the cracks of old buildings

Slugg and cavity on east facade