Built Outside the Record is an architectural research project that examines how underdocumented Black social spaces can be understood, reconstructed, and reimagined using fragmentary evidence. Working primarily from Birney Imes’s Juke Joint, one of the few sustained visual records of these environments, the project treats photographs not as complete representations but as boundary conditions. Scale models reconstruct walls, rooms, and exteriors only where photographic evidence allows, while areas that fall outside the camera’s view are physically masked or rendered void. Some spaces resolve coherently only from a single vantage point, collapsing when viewed from elsewhere to expose how architectural “completeness” is often a product of perspective rather than fact. Light and sound are introduced selectively to test what the archive cannot capture, including time, occupation, and atmosphere, without claiming historical certainty.