The students were asked to 'translate' a painting, making a copy, as it were, from certain choices. The translation addresses Walter Benjamin's essay Freedom and Fidelity. The intensions of these certain choices form a vision, a discourse. The students recorded that process via sketches and (fragments of) text. The whole became like a palimpsest.

In a parallel exercise, the students created a panel with their case as its centre. Like the Memosyne Atlas.The panel brings together three types of images and explores a spectrum between the objective, historical dimension of the site and the more subjective atmospherical qualities; 1. Historical mages that, like a timeline, place the building linearly in time; 2. Images that the student personally choses and that place the site more cyclically in time; 3. Own drawings/sketches of the building with particular attention to places where the architect makes a connection with the existing context, material or immaterial.