IMBY® Kit

A cnc cut building frame system made from sustainably sourced plywood — purchased as a complete kit or as a structural frame only.

The design and development of a cnc cut building frame system — allowing customers to access difficult to access sites and construct the cabins by themselves.

IMBY® stands for In My Back Yard. It is a building kit that encapsulates the simplicity and elegance of ancient woodworking techniques with the efficiency and sustainability of digital fabrication and renewable resources, to provide occupants with an easy to assemble and low cost space solution that you can configure and re-configure to respond to what life throws your way. The IMBY® aesthetic is unique and captivating, more than a style — it is the raw expression of its materials and how it goes together.

The structural frame of the IMBY® is modular, extendable as spatial needs dictate, and made up of interlocking mortice and tenon joints. These joints form an integral part of the intuitive assembly process, a major objective of the IMBY® Kit.

The IMBY® Kit has been designed with ease of assembly in mind. Putting together the IMBY® Kit yourself is part of the joy of the kit, helps keep costs down and gives you the satisfaction of building something beautiful yourself.

Fabricating building parts offsite in a factory environment rather than onsite achieves a higher level of control over the efficiency and accuracy of the building process. Machine efficiency is utilised to carry out repetitive tasks, this creates material and cost savings unparalleled by insitu construction.

To find out more about IMBY® kit or to order your own follow the link to the IMBY® Kit Website.

Architect : Adriano Pupilli Architects

Photographer : Adriano Pupilli Architects

This project was completed during my time at Adriano Pupilli Architects.

My involvement includes taking the idea of a cnc cut portal frame and realising it into a product.

The process included the complete design and development of the IMBY kit, the design and detailing of the cnc cut parts — nested on cut sheets in CAD format to maximise yield and minimise waste, the creation of an assembly manual that allows for the complex number of variations as a result of the modular design, implementation of the ordering process and creation of the website.