A growing number of environmental, technological, and cultural reasons support the case for greater attention to the existing building stock and expanding practices of building alteration. And with it, renewed attention to architecture’s central instrument for documenting existing buildings: the as-built. Commonly overlooked as a sterile service instrument, the as-built is exposition for new architectural acts. Presented here are a series of experiments and investigations into expanding the narrative value of the as-built, carried out as part of a graduate course taught at Tulane University, and an accounting of the professional, historic, and disciplinary contexts informing the work.

越来越多的环境、技术和文化原因支持更多关注现有建筑存量和扩大建筑改造实践的理由。有了它，重新关注建筑记录现有建筑的核心工具：竣工。作为一种无菌服务工具通常被忽视，竣工是新建筑行为的博览会。这里展示了一系列实验和调查，旨在扩大竣工的叙事价值，作为杜兰大学教授的研究生课程的一部分进行，以及对告知工作的专业、历史和学科背景的说明。