«Our initial demonstrations include experimental and theoretical studies of more than forty representative geometries, from single and multiple helices, toroids and conical spirals, to
structures that resemble spherical baskets,
cuboid cages, starbursts, flowers, scaffolds, fences and frameworks, each with single and / or multiple level configurations, constructed in various materials, including semiconductors, conductors and dielectrics.»
The
cuboid arch of the top
structure seems to enclose — protectively — the two interlocking L - shapes that form the base; it is unified, tightly aligned, seemingly impenetrable, but clearly broken.
Araeen, who was by then working for British Petroleum as an engineering assistant, and still without a studio, began to realise these
cuboid forms, maquettes such as First
Structure (1966 — 67), on his kitchen table.