The intention of the design research was to investigate the nature of seismic failures in common modular walls and then, design a unit system with capacity in response, which can aggregate into a wall system with the capacity to withstand a certain level of seismic activity. The basic form of the units are derived through design evolution with respect to the behavior of concrete and to ensure that they self –compact in a similar manner a pile of stone or breakwaters self-compact with the use of forces applied to them.

The design of the unit system was based on a linear stacking of non-Euclidean masonry units that self-compact in reaction to seismic movement which occur in the X and Y axis using gravity working along Z axis. Gravity is the principal driving force of the design. From the making of the units to the resulting formal language of the individual blocks, a gravity based formwork dictates the visual, structural and performative qualities of the system. The five types of doubly curve units are derived from a non-Euclidean grid to allow their aggregations to grow, span and enclose space with a double curvature, which gives them the quality of being modules of a three dimensional spatial system rather than a planer surface.