Some Walls From Unbuilt Houses is an immersive architectural installation at Kent State CAED featuring full-scale wood-framed walls "biopsied" from residential concepts designed by Endemic Architecture between 2016 and 2020. The exhibition spotlights a recurring motif in our work: the curled wall room. By bending and spiraling, these walls carve out intimate, protected pocket spaces designed to celebrate and restore complex human emotions and private rituals—from reading, thinking, and writing to resting, crying, or cuddling. Each sensory nook is finished in a rich, tactile palette of materials, including faux fur, faux leather, wood shingles, reflective wallpaper, iridescent vinyl, shaped felt, plywood, and painted surfaces.

Recomposed within the gallery as an enfilade, the installation shifts the visitor's experience between occupying highly finished rooms and moving through the raw structural pockets, or poché, between them. This layout invites guests to continuously transition through variegated spaces while catching sightlines across multiple layers of material. Within the structural gaps, visitors encounter diorama-like "Poché Still Lifes" that display artifacts from the physical labor of construction, alongside raw stud piles scattered across the floor to suggest an active building site. Floor plans showing the origin of the curled geometries are tucked into hidden nooks and crannies, prompting visitors to bend down, peer through structural framing, and search out hidden layers of architectural space.