Maze

This view at Morwell Power Station and Briquette Factories looks south from behind the wet section toward the south transfer station. Its corrugated iron facade is punctuated by large gridded windows and a diagonal enclosed walkway, several of its panes broken. The raw coal bunker rises above the roofline behind it. Exposed brickwork shows on the right, and patches of dry grass mark the concrete base. The structure reads as a knot of overlapping volumes, the walkway cutting across the facade and the bunker standing over everything.

The transfer station served both the briquette factory and the power station. Its sole function was to redirect material flow from the wet section toward the main buildings. Coal was conveyed from the west into the site and distributed to either the power station or the briquette factories, with output leaving from the eastern side. The briquette factories drew on Yallourn coal railed across the interconnecting line, because Morwell brown coal proved unsuitable for briquetting. Brett photographed the south transfer station on 15 April 2017, in the closed briquette factory before the demolition program began.