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UCLA — M.Arch

Joint Design

A 1-foot cube of self-interlocking parts that hides many windows.

Joint Design
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Reading the View House as mostly rectangular geometries and simple curves, the joint carries that simplicity into a single cube whose proportion echoes the house's floor plan.

Built from four interlocking components, the joint produces intersections, openings, apertures and concealed connections — a closed cube that turns out to hold multiple windows.

Year
2021
Location
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Role
Designer
Brief
Joint Design
Scale
1 × 1 × 1 ft
Tools
Rhino, Physical Model

Credits

In collaboration with Qinyi Wu and Zirui Wang