Held Without Nails

Sashimono cabinetry, Norwegian stave framing and Keralan timber roofs all resolve load through cut geometry instead of hardware. The joint is the structure. It can be taken apart, corrected, and put back.

Twenty full-scale joints are shown at eye level, unfinished, so the cut faces stay readable. Beside them are three demountable housing prototypes built to the same principle, with their disassembly sequences filmed end to end.

The argument is not nostalgic. A building that comes apart is a building whose material has somewhere to go afterwards, which is a structural question and a waste question at the same time.