Upon what traces can one base an architecture of inhabitation? What are inhabitory marks? How can they be read as spatial generators? What is the difference between their literal translation and one which adds more information? And how does the resultant space affect the traces which occur inside/around it? What is the relationship between those traces and those which initiated the process? What is the character of the created space?

"As distinct from symbols, indexes establish their meaning along the axis of a physical relationship to their referents. They are the marks or traces of a particular cause, and that cause is the thing to which they refer the object they signify. Into the category of the index, we would place physical traces (like footprints), medical symptoms,...cast shadows." And "The image (created by a rayograph) is of the ghostly traces of departed objects; they look like...marks that have been left in dust." From Rosalind Krauss, "Notes on the Index," The Originality of the Avant Garde: