What if you could hear a building?

Recreatura is a binaural sonic installation by Alicia Waibel, Evina Kat, Michael Wagner, Ritu Kittur and Samia Kapadia of the 4-8 Collective that reimagines Charterhouse not as something to be seen, but something to be heard. Spanning over 600 years of layered history, this historic complex of courtyards, gardens and weathered stone becomes the subject of an entirely new mode of architectural inquiry.

Visitors enter a booth at Charterhouse Square and put on headphones, joining light on its eternal passage through the estate. Weightless and omnipresent, light is the ideal witness to architecture as it floods the courtyards, grazes the ancient stonework, slips beneath doorways and lingers in forgotten corners. Binaural recordings translate this luminous journey into sound, tracing the dialogue between raw construction in its original form and the weathered, time-worn state it has become across six centuries.

At the close of the experience, each listener renders their imagined space onto paper, collectively authoring a secondary installation - an evolving mosaic of imagined architecture grown from sound, memory and sensory perception.