In the early 1870s, on a former factory site next to the River Lea in Bromley-by-Bow, construction began on a large new gasworks. The cast-iron gasometers being assembled represented a new phase of innovation and production; the second industrial revolution. 100 years later, the site was decommissioned and became inactive as a result of the discovery of natural gas in the North Sea. The gasometers now sit as rusting craters on the landscape.

Launch Point Congreve uses principles taken from archeoastronomy to explore the existential relationship humans have with the cosmos. These include apertures and equipment to track various positions of the sun, walls that gradually erode to mark the solar eclipses of the next 1000 years, and an opening to view the rotation of the stars around Polaris in the night sky. All of these are set within a monolithic rammed earth edifice, produced using material taken from a stepped central crater. This cosmically referential design encased in such a primal material creates a structure that makes people look at the richness of planet Earth, as well as up at the stars.