This thesis is about the “on-hold” state of architecture.

The act of building is always something out of the control and will of the architect/designer. First of all, it is done by a contractor team, secondly, it is highly subject to turbulence in the environmental, financial, and political landscape. Some projects are lucky enough to carry on afterward, a lot of them, unfortunately, remained “unfinished” for quite some time.

Needless to say, the image of a ghost town or an abandoned building is never something pleasant to see. From the point of view of the city, they probably also don’t want projects like that which undermines the image of a benevolent living environment it has to offer.

The question then raises to me is that compared with the traditional architectural design when a building can only radiant it’s proposed image when it is substantially completed, can we come up with a design which during the construction process, can have multiple stages of “completion”, or shall we say, the reading of a completed building? it should register itself as a finished building, and a sense of monumentality should be felt even during construction so that when things went south, rather than continuing with the project, it can quickly land onto the nearest “completion” stages to call itself as a finished building.