This piece is part of *Architectura Entropika*, an ongoing series of micro-scale studies in what happens when a building agrees, just slightly, with the second law of thermodynamics. Every tower in the series is built to be visibly losing — but not yet lost.
The Tower at Slow Collapse is the first to be built around a single structural trick: an asymmetric core that tilts the upper third of the build by 4° while keeping the visible elevations vertical. The clutch power of two well-placed Technic pins does most of the work.
220 pieces, drawn from 78 unique lots — the small lot count keeps the build sourceable from one or two BrickLink orders. There are no stickers; all colour is from the bricks themselves.
The colour palette is restrained: warm grey, dark tan and one quiet flash of dark red at the base, where the cracking starts.
The slow stair on the south face wants to be one stud deeper than it is. The build is photographed here in its first version; v2 will be re-cut for that change before it goes into the show case.
For walkthroughs of the structural trick and the parts list, see the Rebrickable page (link to be added when the build is uploaded).
