This thesis explores the dynamic, spatial and temporal implications of joinery for reimagining the home. The aim is to capture three of the myriad dimensions that comprise the spirit of joinery: craft, flexibility, and nature. The join is expressed on many different scales, as you will see throughout this presentation. From the microscale of furniture, through the mesoscale of the home, to the macroscale of nature. The craft of joinery is explored across different traditions and forms. This includes intricate hand joins from Japan to lap joints found in the traditional American timber framed home. These joins also invite a consideration of the interplay of natural forces. On a material level, the joins are made visible, revealing the broad range of how things come together. On a metaphorical level, these joins express connections between different aspects of nature--between humans and nature, between family and community, and between family members. The concept of the join itself motivates this reimagining of the home, as articulated by its modular nature. Anchored in the precedent of the classic timber framed single family home, this reimagining positions the home as a site for multigenerational interaction. Static joins throughout the structure play on concepts of balance and tension, while dynamic joins, such as the rotating walls, allow for a flexibility that accommodates changes on and across multiple time scales, from daily cycles to seasonal cycles to life cycles, thereby recognizing the intimate relationships within the multi-generational family, the home and nature.Embedded in both time and space, the home is deeply aware of nature, and its construction intentionally avoids interrupting natural flows--such as that of the trees that grow up through the structure, thus mirroring the changing flows of human lives and family structures. 

Everything is joined.