Tutors: Jonny Martin, Edward Rawle, Klaas de Rycke, Jerry Tate.
The world as we know it is not digital. We want to blur the boundary between the analogue and the digital world, crafting new building typologies that question how we make in the future, combining craft with computerised production.
This year we worked with the overall course theme of 'Mine the Gap' by introducing a performative element to the work. As two groups and as individuals, students pursued this in different ways, with music, movement, light and sound. This has resulted in a rich mix of design solutions grounded in real world primary research.
Both groups in this co-operative completed some excellent large scale physical experiments, working with bamboo and other materials to create working maquettes. When lockdown was imposed this meant that they had a resource of potential creative solutions to draw on for their digital outputs.
A nested bamboo pavilion with pendulums that create a musical performance.
This pavilion creates an interactive 21st-century home for the 17th-century Chinese philosophers called 'The Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove'.
Each student took their group pavilion ideas and created their own versions based on their own particular brief.