POWAY—– Ever since his college days in the 1970s, Poway-based architect Mark Burginger has toyed with the idea of designing something from an unusual geometric design, a la Richard Buckminster Fuller and his geodesic domes.
Today, Burginger has created Qubits —- a modular building element that he plans to transform into a toy for children.
“Children are growing up with a Lego block mentality, (but) nature doesn’t put itself together with rectangles,” Burginger said. “It would be my hope that children would play with it and they would develop a different way of thinking about how things go together.”
Coined as the “construction toy of the future,” the patent-published Qubits is a tangent from Burginger’s daily work as a builder of custom homes and commercial buildings.
Each piece of the toy is made up of three pairs of symmetrical prisms in three overlapping tiers that can be connected to a similar piece in several different ways.
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