Unvoid: Abject Architecture Approaching Entropy Part 2 Dissertation 2024 Immanuel Lavery University of Dundee | UK Condemned to demolition, Cumbernauld Town Centre is effectively a standing corpse awaiting its destruction. This thesis chooses to inhabit the loss of the megastructure and ask what it means for a building to die? Working with, instead of against, the forces of erosion and decay, the text explores the concepts of abjection and entropy.Abjection, understood through a reading of Julia Kristeva and Jacques Lacan, Is not inherently an object of disgust, the abject disrupts systems and borders. Entropy too dictates that disorder is always increasing. By engaging with these concepts, we see architecture is not in static a state of being but, rather, becoming. Considering philosopher Jean-Francois Lyotard’s concept of anamnesis, in acknowledging buildings as always being in a state of decay, continual process, our understanding of what architecture is can be expanded.For this project, using the ideas of architect Lebbeus Woods as a basis, a non-typological architecture is born from forgetting. The project is not a building but a spatial condition that serves as a place of genesis to expand the understanding of architecture beyond our current frameworks that define it. The goal of this work is to inquire how innovation within architecture requires us to unknow. Immanuel Lavery Tutor(s) Lorens Holm