Kerby

KerbyNYC is a collapsible pavilion that uses kerfed plywood to create a flexible construction material that can be applied like a skin to a structural framework. It was designed by a team of ten students. While the initial project brief required a built pavilion, the authors were also interested in designing a flat pack structure that could be quickly moved, assembled, and disassembled in a matter of hours. They considered how a standard construction material, birch plywood, could be re-manipulated to behave in different ways. The developed system has the potential to be applied to projects of many different shapes and scales.