Interwoven: Spaces between space

Austin Wyeth

“Interwoven” aims to stitch together a diverse community through a central market that reaches out through and across the city. Digital fabrication paired with traditional weaving techniques combine to create architecture of ambiguity in space between space in existing cities.

Social Refuge

Dharmesh Mistry

Redefining the architectural language of a social refuge in Barcelona, through the application of Kumiko. This project is defined by the use of holistic design principles, in conjunction with Kumiko creates a harmonious wellbeing environment in which can create a positive impact

Transfiguration in Timber

Hannah Green

The world is witnessing an increase in the potential of timber in architecture thanks to the advancements in its fabrication. ëTransfiguration in Timberí delves into this newfound potential and exploits the natural qualities of timber strips creating beautiful, complex morphology.

The Clima Market

Jason Hsin-Yen Huang

This project focuses on preservation and regeneration. Attempt to extract the principles and structural languages from the umbrella, using these design languages as design key drivers to integrate the tensegrity system and tensile structures together to generate a canopy structure for the market place.

The Kerfthedral: A Sacred Makerspace

Jonah Maxted

The Kerfthedral is the first manifestation of a continually evolving sacred space dedicated to the craftspeople of the El Poblenou district. Catalyzing the regeneration of the area while ensuring a legacy of craft is supported for future generations through periodical renewal, the building allows the latest digital craft innovations to be celebrated.

Barcelona Bamboo Expo 20XX

Joshua Ting Sing Rong

This project aims to reintroduce bamboo as a modern construction material fit for the 21st century. With the support of digital tools and technology, this project reimagines the application of bamboo that could be used to create a new paradigm, elevating this humble material to be the new steel of the 21st century to be featured in the Barcelona 20XX Bamboo World Expo.

A Living Language

Kayira Momife

‘A Living Language’ is an architectural celebration of a hieroglyphic, forgotten language called Nsibidi. Comprising thousands of complex linear and curvilinear elements, Nsibidi characters were inscribed on bodies and buildings, carrying the messages of the Igbo people of south eastern Nigeria. 

The rules of Nsibidi characters; rotational symmetry, additions and scalar transformations create complex geometries – a ‘literal’ expression of the linear characters can be identified by a viewer who understands Nsibidi. When aggregated, these elements are ‘grown’ vertically or horizontally to create architectural typologies. The deeper meanings of symbols, whose pictorial nature often references cultural norms specific to the Igbo create opportunities for a more ‘metaphoric’ expression. 

As a British-Nigerian from the Igbo tribe, this is a personal exploration of my culture and history, unearthing and understanding a forgotten language and giving it the opportunity to ‘speak’ new life into the contemporary architectural experience of a cultural centre with a theatre at its heart.

Geometric Building Block

Michal Maksymiszyn

This project explores the potential of using geometrical shapes, rules, and their properties to generate a new type of building block which would tackle the use of a typical brick.

Fractal Amphitheater

Nivedita Sridhar

The project explores the scope of using natural elements like sunlight and water in creating spatial experiences through architecture. Broken Bridge site chosen to play with natural water levels created during monsoon season.

The bridge that leads to nowhere now leads to my sacred space/amphitheater .  .  .

Casa Asia

Ringo Pang

The project proposes a redesign of the Casa Asia in Barcelona, promoting cultural and economic exchange between Spain and Pacific countries.  The design reimagines the ‘Bracket System’ from traditional Chinese Architecture, reinvented using digital design and fabrication technologies to create a fusion between the Spanish and Chinese traditional courtyard houses.

Kirigami Villa

Sara Tomljenovic

This Project is an investigation of how Kirigami craft can be used as a special language to create architecture. This system shown potential for light, voids, and flexible design. Pavilion and Urban Villa were two typologies used in this project to prove the potential of Kirigami. Kirigami rules were adapted to create a shape that answer its environmental context and designed to bring people closer to nature.

Divine Digital, A Digitally Crafted Glory Facade

Theadora Radcliffe

Choreographing the digital craft of 3D printing to create form that is at once Christian symbolism and architecture in a reinterpreted design for the Glory Facade of the Sagrada Família.

The Limband The Vault

Tomás Sullivan

By dissecting traditional craft principles of the English longbow this project uses an adaptive system to form a framework of the Catalan vault – manifesting as a new type of city block for Barcelona which creates green spaces and visual depth.

For(u)m follows Function

Wee Kee Goh Project

The project explores into modern wood tailoring technique called darting – cutting slits from the surface of wood, allowing it to perform elastic transformations with bending-active suitable materials like plywood, creating bending-active structures that collectively become a public forum in Catalonia.