Joel's work explored architecture and the human body as a merged functional entity. It understood the body as flesh dependent on the conveniences of constructed environments, drawing on architecture-as-prothesis to ensure its survival. A prothesis is worn to facilitate a greater or more convenient level of performance or inhabitation. Similar to architecture, it reconfigures the conventions of behaviour and occupation. The metaphor of 'prosthesis' emphasises architecture’s authority over the body and vice versa, and its ability to stimulate certain movements, postures and gestures, rendering them socially acceptable or even necessary in a public context.

This project wondered how architecture can reinvent systems of behaviour, occupation and movement in order to increase one’s awareness and one's critical capacity to establish a personal form of inhabitation.

Joel proposed a realm of spatiality that 'decodes' binary relationships between flesh and construction. Here intermediacies and ambiguities legitimatised a more open dialogue between body and space in the design process. The architecture itself became a means to discover non-traditional forms of inhabitation.