Dominic Botho Maje

Acoustic Earth 

Exploring the structural and expressive capabilities of bamboo and earth mixture in a grid construction system. Having two subjects to work with, the research is divided into three sections one analysing the structural capabilities of bamboo as a lightweight material, secondly exploring earths additional loadbearing and protective properties, and acoustic manipulation through form and structure.

Fareed Fareed

Sacred Geometry

The project attempts to capture the traditional mathematical ethos of design through geometry exploration and represent it based on a series of algorithms. Analogous to Muqarnas, the algorithm was developed based on a grammar of mathematical principles to achieve a versatile tectonic language.

Gizem Kocaman

Cruckerf Institute - Institute of Craft and Design, Grymsdyke Farm

The project investigates new design techniques in relation to the local Cruck Frame systems which can be found in the earliest barn and cottage foundations in the UK. The new kerfing system allows to propose higher, more flexible and attached structures to the existing cruck systems like a bridge and helps to form the Cruckerf Institute. The building serves as a craft and design institute by exhibiting the crafts out of proposed workshops, but what makes it special is the building itself which acts like one of these crafts.

Harry Court

Just Another Brick in the Wall

This project explores the 7 millenia old trade of masonry. With the introduction of new building materials and technologies, many have started to view masonry as a dying trade. The aim of this project is to explore the possibilities and potential when combining the build process with new augmented reality software.

Leen Alkhoury

Cultural Conservation Center for Bamboo Crafts, Singapore

The cultural tradition of bamboo weaving is applied on an architectural scale with the help of computation-based approaches. By applying compression to a bamboo weave, an adaptive and sustainable screen system was created with the intention of framing views, manipulating light, shaping circulation, weatherproof, and controlling solar gain.

Michal Maksymiszyn

Variable Building Block (Institute of Craft and Design) Grymsdyke Farm

This project looks at the possibility of creating a new building block based upon using a geometrical shape and variable moulds. The research topic of this project will heavily rely on understanding: geometry, the rules of geometry, the process of mould making, casting and how these topics could be combined and interpreted into a tectonic language

Seyyid Yilmaz

Multi-layer Timber Weaving

This project investigates traditional Japanese multi-layer timber weaving methods on a hexagonal pattern and its behaviours on a design of an Institute for Contemporary Craft and Design in Grymsdyke Farm.

Sonal Veerabhadra

Interlocking Stones

This project explores the age-old craft of Incan dry masonry and attempts to recreate a contemporary interlocking stone language by understanding their tectonic logic and geometry. The design of the Shrine is program specific and environmentally driven, dedicated to a meditative fire ritual.

Taha Simsek

The Aluminium

While adapting the environment by reacting as a continuation on the exterior, the design aims to bring nature as a reflection to the interior to create an exhilarating experience. To have a deeper understanding about the material’s formability and reflectivity, learned from aluminum crafting techniques and the mirror types.