Schools exist to preserve knowledge.

Universities exist to extend it.

Both are built on continuity—generations arriving, learning, and leaving, while the building itself remains unchanged.

These institutions often carry extensive histories, including periods of use that no longer resemble their current function.

Reports frequently describe activity occurring after hours, when the building returns to stillness. Footsteps in empty corridors. Lights in rooms no longer occupied. Figures seen where no one should be present.

These places were designed for presence.

Their absence is what makes the stories possible.