The Factory and the Ruin is a graduation project that runs in parallel with the call for competition on the site of the Kulturforum so to extend the Neue Nationalgalerie by Mies van der Rohe. The project is an attempt to both resolve the open-ended landscape of the Kulturforum and to simultaneously reflect upon the artistic production of the century from which it emerged. For that, both architecture and curatorial practice are in dialogue to give spatial, material and technical representation to the contemporary art gallery, in order to explore the possibilities of staging and to reduce the conflicts between space of production and space of representation typical of the museum genre. The project offers a critical dialogue between the gallery spaces in adjacent to the architectural landmarks of the Kulturforum, the city of Berlin and its continuous flux of construction and deconstruction. Working closely with history, its artefacts, and the traces left on the site, the extensive collection of modern art finds its shrine in a walled-shaded interior calibrated for several art conditions which can be read as a reinterpretation of the space 'as found'.