In erecting a prefabricate home, most of the on-site labor appears to be dedicated to assembling and sealing the thresholds between the constituent parts.
I used this as a basis for exploring how building parts could be assembled seamlessly, without limiting the possible number of configurations.
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| Above is an example of a corner connection using frames with isosceles triangle sections, with an orange connector piece. These would be useful only for framing cuboid spaces. |
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| Above is a corner of a similar frame system, using frames that are square in section. In order to form frames using members of this geometry, there is only one necessary geometric operation; a rotation about the axis formed by the touching edges of all three members. |
Attaching a "panel" to a frame member yields similar geometric results, with a more strongly implied spatial organization.
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| Red, yellow and blue components are identical. Six such components can be used to form a cube with walls of architectural thickness, using only rotational operations. |
Members can be made to form Cartesian geometries when aggregated, in various ways:
And the resulting frames can of course yield endless possibilities for a modular, cube-based space, using just two components.
So at this point, there are paneled components that can form only cubes, and frame components that can form any 3-Dimensional cube-cell structure.
These explorations culminated in the development of a panel-frame-corner system that can be used to create more complex spaces, still using a single identical component:
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| This "part" consists of a universal connector corner (three degrees of freedom), two frame members, and a panel. |
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| These connect in the more obvious way. |
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| But also are able to form more complex spaces based on a simple set of rules regarding component placement. |
