Becoming the Ouroboros investigates the spatial values of Boca La Caja (BLC), an informal settlement in Panama City. Often cast in a negative light due to challenges like the difficulty of law enforcement, the common lack of fundamental services, and low structural resiliency, informal urban landscapes provide a low barrier entry to the vast opportunities of cities. Further the production of space is governed by hyper local social agreements and overlapping networks of connection. The urban landscape grows sequentially with the community, as structures densify, so too do relationships and cultural expressions one step at a time. As the site has reached its geographic limit, Becoming the Ouroboros proposes the mobilisation of this process of intertwined spatial and social improvement, within a closed system. To continue evolving the community must like the Ouroboros consume itself. To achieve this, I propose the implementation of a ‘Tinker Station’ designed to turn the professions of the built environment into a public service that can be leveraged by the community to improve BLC. This is located in an aging vegetable oil factory on the site, which is consumed akin to a mining operation and used to better the suburb. The existing community can therefore leverage the expertise, spaces and tools provided by the Tinker Station, along with existing material on the site to improve infrastructure, housing stock, and urban spaces within the existing cycles of informal development. This process is just a beginning, once the factory is completely transfigured, the resources needed to better the community are pulled from their own structures and houses, materials are transformed, and the site continues to incrementally better itself through its self-cannibalism. Becoming the ouroboros.