Craftsmanship and manufacturing activities have been pushed out of city centers due to deindustrialization, production nuisances, and increased land value. The prestigious Menuiserie Modèle Held, adjacent to Montreux train station, exemplifies this loss. Bankrupt in 1984, the former woodworking building now houses three associations. The Municipality acquired it in 2010, planning to demolish it for a centralized office. Elinor Ostrom’s theory of the commons, applied to architecture through spaces for resource management or space itself as a shared resource, advocates for collective alternatives. This project prompts a rethinking of urban productivity and collective goods in cities. First, to propose a renovation and extension, a painstaking process of collecting, assembling and redrawing existing archives took place. The project thus seeks to thematize the need to make this labor visible and valuable, framing a disciplinary shift toward alternatives to demolition. Second, the project will propose to leverage the site’s strategic logistical qualities —rail connections to the communal sawmill upstream and to the Arc Lémanique population downstream— by reviving a joinery-cabinetmaking workshop, collectively managed. The spaces extend into the courtyard to balance work and leisure and optimize space occupancy, with a new stepped staircase opening towards the old town. The project results in a commons platform on the station, forming a familiar yet new city’s façade at track level.