MODULE 04 // ARCHIVE

ARCHIVE

Notes, photos, old projects, reference material, and digital artifacts that are worth keeping even when they are no longer part of the active workbench.

> ARCHIVE STATUS: ONLINE

> MODE: REFERENCE / ARCHIVE

> POLICY: KEEP THE USEFUL PARTS

ARCHIVE PURPOSE

The archive is not meant to be a polished gallery. It is the place for material that documents how a project evolved: old notes, photographs, experiments, finished work, abandoned ideas, and things that may become useful again later.

DOCUMENTATION

Notes
Specifications
How-it-was-done material

Keep the information that explains the work.

PHOTOS

Build photos
Reference images
Before / after

Visual records belong here when they are useful.

OLD PROJECTS

Completed work
Superseded builds
Previous versions

Finished does not mean forgotten.

DIGITAL ARTIFACTS

Code
Exports
Reference files

Useful digital pieces survive outside the active build.

ALTERNATES

Discarded concepts
Alternate renders
Earlier layouts

Keep the history without confusing it with production.

FUTURE USE

Ideas
References
Things worth revisiting

Some archived material eventually comes back online.

> ARCHIVE RULE: active files stay active; historical files stay identifiable as historical.