Fabrication · Furniture

Prefabricated Storage Modules

CNC-cut plywood storage units, dowel-jointed and demountable, for a hutong courtyard.

Year
2017
Role
Design and fabrication with dot Architects
Location
Hutong courtyard, Beijing
Tags
prefab · CNC · product · plywood
Storage modules along a courtyard wall, with a passer-by in motion

A small-scale answer to a common hutong problem: too little storage, too little room to build. The units are cut from standard plywood sheets on a CNC router, joined with dowels, and carried into the courtyard flat.

Modules in the courtyard

Joinery

Every connection is a dowel. No glue, no screws, so the modules can be taken apart and moved again.

Closed modules in a narrow courtyard

Individual units

In use

Storage modules in use