The Assembly Works Part 2 Project 2025 Joseph Nicholson Loughborough University | UK Andrejsala Assembly is a proposal for a new circular industry at the heart of Riga’s former industrial port. Rooted in the concept of spolia, the reuse of architectural fragments in new forms, the project transforms a disused grain silo into a centre for material processing, research, and public engagement. Adjacent to the new timber-framed Assembly Hall, the remaining silo becomes the Library of Spolia: a material archive, marketplace, and catalyst for circular construction in Latvia.The project repositions waste as resource, and ruin as opportunity. It establishes a phased model for regenerative development, beginning with on-site material salvage and growing into a public infrastructure that supports local building projects, skills exchange, and low-carbon construction.Crucially, the project challenges the role of the architect, not as a specifier of new materials, but as a designer working with what is available. It proposes a future in which architecture responds to material realities, not idealised conditions; where form emerges from inventory, not abstraction. Andrejsala Assembly enables this shift, providing the space, systems, and civic framework for a new architectural culture, one that builds from the existing, for the future. From ruin to resource. Tutor(s) Francis Breheny