The
UnaBox
MAKE A KEYLESS,
SECRET, WOODEN
COMPARTMENT.
BY CLAUDIO BERNARDINI
My architect friends Lorenzo Bini and Roberta Pezzulla made this little project for a very young and dynamic client: Lorenzo’s 6-month-old
goddaughter. They wanted to make a box that the child could use her whole
life to store small, personal, precious things. So they created the UnaBox,
taking inspiration from an Indian box (by an anonymous designer) that had
an obscure opening system with 2 pivoting lids.
The box’s dimensions are based on the golden ratio, and it allows access
only to patient and curious people; many adults have tried to open it and
failed. Here’s how to build one yourself!
65 Make:
