We live in a world of material disconnection. Outsourced and offshored, production is an abstract process that happens out of sight of it’s consumers. Thereby neglecting to acknowledge the labour, skills, and time contained within physical production. Supporting an expanded notion of knowledge that includes the tacit, the project considers a reciprocal relationship between the acts of inhabitation and production, seeking to reframe the typically productive site of the workshop as one of creativity, invention, and education. A guiding principle throughout is that of tectonics; seeing the physical connections that constitute what a building literally is — an assemblage of elements — and what it seeks to say about itself, as synonymous. Moments in the building seek to not only highlight the influence of the skilled hand, but also how this can interact with contemporary technologies to produce novel outcomes. Blurring the line between conceptual and physical labour — both spatially and programmatically — a proposal for a school of fabrication sited in central Turin calls for a change in attitudes and policy towards places of urban industry, sites of production, and modes of knowledge.