Courtyard Kit

The design question

How can a kit of complete, movable pieces fill a terrace without becoming a fixed pattern?

The brief

Courtyard Kit explores seating, planting, tables, and pergolas as whole pieces that can move and rotate. The current Freeform study uses seven four-cell shapes on a two-metre grid. Each cell starts with the full set of parts, allowing seating and planting to appear throughout the layout.

The method

Unique paired connectors keep each four-cell shape intact. Finished outer edges can meet the boundary. Monoceros solves the whole area, while the designers author the parts, revise the brief, and judge the resulting space.

The result

The documented default fills an 8 × 8-cell area with 16 complete pieces. Validation recorded 25 distinct layouts from 25 tested seeds, with checks for full fill, intact pieces, boundary rules, and repeatability. These observations describe this study and its tested range.

Further development

Circulation, accessibility, and structural design need further review beyond the encoded connection rules. The pergolas and the relationship between each shape and its function remain subjects of design development.

Design development and critique: Ján Pernecký & Hugo Fekar. Native definition and rendering developed with AI-assisted scripts. Images render the generated geometry.