Blast from the Past: Build the Time Travel Component not possible in apartments

I have all the required items in my inventory and handiness and logic at level 2, but there is no interaction on the shards of time except "Add to Favorites". Restarting the game didn't help.

EDIT I wondered whether it was the issue that my Sim was living in a San Myshuno apartment. After moving him to a residential the interaction appeared as expected...