In 1667, “phlogiston” was first stated by physicist Johann Joachim Becher as the element in any material that could be burned. The pragmatic ecology of burning redirects the materiality of “fuel” beyond essential and eternal attributes of the object but to the quantity of its content: simply, the underlying energy is to be extracted regardless of initial plans and intentions.Present condition in the city of Detroit is the start point for this project to investigate the possible changes within the vacant lots of Delray and industrial sites; a place that both asks for remediation of all kinds and promises new opportunities to emerge from the vastness of a land that has the history of being called neighborhood.Morphological aspect of this project that materializes in new topographies and rising “totems” also arises from an attempt to establish a dialogue between the land (not as a solid but a fluid) and the dominant and flat horizon of the Midwest beside the sense of absence resulted from the history of Detroit having been vaporized by dramatic population decrease.