What is
"rich"?

I realised that "rich" can be found within the
"poor" or
"filthy".
(hope my vocab is correct)You do not need expensive material, skilled builders, architects, proper planning to come up with a superb piece of architecture. Architecture rich in emotions, feelings, memories or simply phenomenology can simply be found within the dusty items, rotten wood, molded concrete walls, rusted metals and the lower
(or perhaps lowest) strata in the community.

I have come to realise that architecture can never
NOT be related with feelings(i have yet to read more on this topic), being one who experienced both filthy and luxury, I would say both are rich in their own way.
Places that had never been accessed for years.

Things that were there all the while, keeping them for?

Certain area that evokes memories on how hard life was back then. Struggling. Things were all kept that way, untouched, until they are explored and "digged" out and revealed.

Series of things that speaks plural, of many, much, alot.



Never wanting to change thing, never want to accept changes, because they are so rich and precious, every single fault, every single broken piece, every single dirt and dust.

But one thing about architecture and planning, is that things change with relation to time. And about city emigration and immigration, old ones leave, new ones come in, places develop.....
And then, what has been torn down, remains historical for a short while, until the huge machine comes and remove them and start a new project....

The whole filthy small town, carries this scent... the scent of a rich and meaningful architecture unconsciously engraved in the minds of the locals, and which will be gone, perished and replaced with "a better piece of work". Lost its identity where every single shop and house is different from the other, that uniqueness.... *sigh* this is the development of human civilisation....
Very soon, this "rich" town will disappear, and then commercialised and standardised in terms of architecture and planning, then, each piece of building becomes value-less......