The work represented by these images is an investigation into a system of assembly that is not regulated by a predetermined geometric relationship of an individual piece to the next, a system that allows for an open-ended method of defining space. There are two components to this study, the panel and the joint. Each panel is identical and each joint is identical. The panels can be placed in an ordered way or by a capricious act. They can bridge between one another or cantilever at any angle. Structure allows a regular box or an expressive form.

The joint, and the way that it attaches to the panels, is the most vital of the two components. The shape of the panel has very little to do with the way that the pieces are assembled. Three wheels, allowing a sphere of movement around the x, y and z axes, form the joint. A dado around each edge of the panels receives the x or z wheel. The wheel, placed anywhere along the perimeter of the plank, can then be rotated in the dado to achieve the correct orientation before it is fastened into place. The x and z wheels can then be locked into position on the y wheel to accept the next panel. The panels can also be lapped into one another by inserting the tongue of one plank into the groove of another. The motivation for this study was to allow neither the form or the structural system to become subservient to the other, to allow both the freedom to work together.