Throughout history an Institution of Watcheries known as the Moirai has looked on, measuring the deterioration of society in hopes to calculate, predict and prepare for the next Fall of Civilisation.
The ancient, ritualistic lifestyle of the Moirai is composed of measuring the architectures of deterioration. Through creating physical registers of decay and obsolescence, the Watchery works as an inanimate sacrifice to the one true God of Time, fading and fading into the future.
The Watchers of Edinburgh are aware this is not the first, nor shall it be the last, Fall of Civilization. Societies have come and gone in this land before, marked by the systems of stabilty and infrastructure [Armatures] found across the Scottish landscape.
Investigating the overlaying remains of these armatures revealed the fight against obsolescence, the struggle for power and the negotiations of technology that surfaced as the armatures wrestle and interconnect across time.
The architecture of a Watchery is divided into three distinct layers designed specifically for the three levels of status within the Moirai hierarchy.
1. The Skin: Clothos [Spinner] lives within a double-skinned environment, designed to tear and rust. They Watch the webs of the silk facade in a continuous cycle of deterioration and reperation.
2. The Nest: Lachesis [Allotter] lives in a nest of corners. They Watch the surrounding technological and social ethosphere, brought into the space by visible architecture and invisible surveillance.
3. The Call: Athropos [The Un-Turnable) lives in a holy space of prayer and calculations. They Watch the information pouring into their dark concrete space to create prophecies and predictions of the future.
The outer layer of the building is an extremely fragile yet large draping mass of silk which is cycled down from the top of the roof. The function of this silk is for the deterioration to be noted and studied by the monks in order to process the data as information for the Physcohistory analysis. In this way, the fabric works as a temporal register, constantly in a dual sense of being: simultaneously deconstructed and constructed forever.
