Fontaine, ChristineLedent, GéraldChanvillard, CécileHoudé, JoelleStoicescu, BogdanBogdanStoicescu2025-06-032025-06-032025-05-1420252025-05-14https://hdl.handle.net/2078.2/42640The thesis explores how we can relate, reflect, and react to the highly complex and deeply subjective aspect of memory in architecture, through the lenses of erosion and sedimentation, two complementary phenomena that have both geologic and anthropic origins, which far outweigh our lifetime. The chosen locus of research is Orgamè/Argamum, the oldest ancient city that has ever been established in Romania, whose eroded ruins sedimented an archaeological site since the beginning of the last century. The site is located on the shores of Razelm-Sinoe, the largest lake in Romania, an open gulf to the Black Sea in Antiquity, when the Greek colonists coming from Miletus founded Orgamè polis on the cliff promontory later named Cape Dolojman by the Turks. This place is now one of the many strictly protected areas of the Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, which ensures that from a pragmatic near-future perspective, any tentative design scenario of a permanent structure on a scale larger than an elevated pathway through the ruins would remain unbuilt. This honest acknowledgment, rather than triggering nostalgic lamentation over the apparent impossibility of acting upon this “picturesque” place, so infused with poetic qualities, opens the opportunity for a meta-reflection on the permanence and transience of architectonic and Land Art explorations as both material gestures and abstract concepts, navigating through uncannily entangled flows between Nature and Artifact which ceaselessly permeate Architecture.memoryerosionsedimentationDanube Deltaruinsarchaeologygeologygraphic narrationOrgamè / ArgamumLand Arttext::thesis::master thesisthesis:49511