Broei is a Belgian youth organization that offers workshop space and six-month residencies in the Castle of Gerald the Devil, a 13th-century Gothic castle in Ghent.

ConstructLab, an architecture-based creative collective that describes themselves as a "collaborative construction practice," assisted Broei by "initiating modular pioneering structures that make it possible for youth organisations to develop themselves in this formerly cold, inhospitable medieval environment," they write.

Here's what they came up with, along with a comprehensive user manual:

The Connectors get the youth participants "Inventing and building something new, adding/modifying a structure built by ConstructLab or [being able to] easily move structures to a new location."

I’m a lapsed industrial designer. I was born in NYC and figured I’d die there, but a few years ago I abandoned New York to live on a farm in the countryside with my wife. We have six dogs.

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