The cabinet in a warm room beside a sofa, a frame of thin metal rods and square joints holding clear shelves, on a herringbone wood floor.
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One modular structure, where different collections coexist within just one form.

The Display Cabinet

One modular structure, where different collections coexist within just one form.

Notes 備考

Modular Display Furniture

Industrial Design · 2026

Fundamentals of Computational Design ·with Lukas Yao, Rain Jiang

A modular furniture design for a shared dorm space, where multiple friends need to display different types of collections.

Rather than treating storage as a static container, the project views a cabinet as a flexible form that can adapt to different objects and personal preferences, with each collection equally visible.

Close view of the frame on grass: thin grey rods, square joints, and two phones resting on a clear shelf.
Final model

One frame, many conditions

A lightweight frame creates a consistent structural grid, with adjustable connectors that allow shelves to shift in height, size, and orientation. Transparency prevents any single collection from dominating the whole.

The whole cabinet standing on a campus lawn, holding a backpack and small objects on clear shelves.
Close view of a camera on a clear shelf and a backpack on the shelf below, among rods and joints.

Spherical nodes proved difficult to control, so the joint became rectilinear. Two identical square connectors let rods align orthogonally and lock into place.

A white printed ball joint with three short arms.
A white printed three-way joint holding a grey rod.
Two metal square connectors stacked on one rod.
Two square connectors locked together, holding three rods.

Joint studies

A single joint type is the organizational rule of the entire assembly. The joint is not hidden; it becomes part of the visual language.

Axonometric
Plan, inches
Short and Long Elevations

A shared platform where individual identity and collective living coexist within one unified structure.