REF-16img/origin-make.jpg · Assembling the dome on the studio floor
A jointed timber dome, cut by machine and assembled by hand — digital fabrication as a route to structure.
Can a machine cut flat parts that a group of people can stand up into a shelter in an afternoon?
This is a college project and it belongs in this index exactly at that weight — not as a credential, but because it is the earliest surviving evidence of how I think.
It was not practical and it did not need to be. It was the proof of a belief I have not actually lost: that a world that works is something a person can just build. Most of what I have done since has been an argument with how much of that belief survives contact with cost, code and weather.
It went on a shelf when the trailer took the next seven years. I am not sure it should have.
