We caught a glimpse behind the curtain of Oyler Wu Collaborative’s hand-over-hand process in Anthony Morey’s latest piece, where the principal’s meticulous and dogged drawing exercises helped push the firm’s formal development. Taking a look back at one of their earlier pavilions, “The Cube”, initially built for the 2013 Beijing Biennale, helps draw the contingency from line drawing to taught steel.

As Justine Testado previously described in her introduction to “The Cube”, the sculpture/pavilion “transforms a solid idea into an abstract piece”, complicating the supposedly concrete notion of an ideal form, the perfect cube. The pavilion is a clear elaboration on previous work, such as their Taipei Sales Center or the Stormcloud pavilion at SCI-Arc, where solid volumes are stretched and torn by lines and suspensions, testing the spatial limits of what they consider “pure” forms. OWC has also designed two other pavilions at SCI-Arc, including Netscape and Centerstage, which fit clearly into Stormcloud and The Cube's evolution.

The Bigger than a Breadbox, Smaller than a Building competition encourages a similar evolution, open to anyone (architect or not) who wants to develop a previous pavilion piece. The winning proposal will be installed inside the Boston Society of Architects' BSA Space gallery.

Have you built a installation project that’s ripe for evolution? Apply now! Submissions to the Bigger Than A Breadbox competition are open until 12a PST (midnight) on February 15, 2015.