'Dorm A' focused on finding limits or physical parameters within which architects could operate consistently and deductively throughout the design process. It departs from a simple collection of L and T shaped structures that are too large to be individual walls, too shallow to be spaces in and of themselves, and too solid to serve as thresholds or passages. Instead they break up the site, imposing spatial, material, and structural constraints to the ensuing work. The shear surfaces appear to be sculptural on their own. Yet they practically determine where architecture can or cannot occur. The resulting form features a heterogeneity of spaces which could, perhaps with its non-orthogonal angles, accommodate delightful living experience and interactions. The shear elements form a network where one would prop up another. With floor plates inserted as diaphragms, the building becomes a physical manifestation of structural reciprocity, which lends itself the rhetoric of collective living if we consider that the program has been chosen to be a dormitory. Inhabitants would be not only living in close vicinity to others, but virtually in a space delineated by interdependent structure.