Moratorium is a legal term defined as a suspension of activity. The aim of a Moratorium on Construction is for demolition to become unthinkable, while only constructing new when unavoidable.
The Central Coast is a primary producer of many resources that fuel the construction industry, the combination of which reveals an ‘Invisible city’ - the inverse of our built environment.
The architectural studio must be integrated within the processes of repair, both spatially and conceptually. This manifests as the studio placed centrally within the Repair Factory, as an elevated ‘gantry’.
The role of the future architect is to politicise the materiality in any documentation, accounting for the sources of each detail, element and process. ‘To build’, does not presuppose ‘new’.
The architectural drawing can be understood as an abstract map of resource extraction. Closing the ‘autonomy’ between the disciplines of design and construction reveals the consequences of every line drawn.
1. Approach to site and public gardens. 2. Unprogrammed civic space, and seminar above. 3. The Gantry Studio above the factory’s circulation corridor. 4. Prototyping bays on the factory floor.