This project explores unconventional procedural methods for producing architectural geometry, resulting in a proposed dwelling unit.

I began with a Möbius strip, representing the looping and paths people tend to take through space. Through a series of physical and digital transformations, the strip twists, splits, is cut into sections, rejoins, creases, and stretches into occupiable space.

The unit's loosely defined walls, floors, and ceilings fold into, over, and around each other, creating surfaces with no defined purpose but many possible uses. The dwelling retains aspects of the original Möbius strip in the twisting, looping, and not-quite-flat walking surfaces that make up its circulation routes. It also features several flat or nearly flat surfaces raised above the unit's circulatory planes. These have intentionally unspecified purposes, making them adaptable for a multitude of uses at different times, including dining, food preparation, seated work, sitting, sleeping, and storage.

The architecture is so irregular that I found the most effective way to present it was through animations. The digital model is revealed in a slicing sectional view and as it spins in solid and ghostly form. The physical model also displays a new richness when viewed in time-lapse, as light and shadow filtered through the complex form crawl across its surface.

Visit the Enfolded Dwelling Model page for more images of the physical model.