Digital Craft In Architecture
As a research cluster, DCA integrates teaching, research, and design. It is a teaching practice that combines digitalisation, artificial intelligence, and automation with traditional crafts. Its team consisted of researchers, scholars, and designers, architects from the UK, HK, EU.
Its design research results have been featured in Archidaily, Dezeen, Designboom, Architectural Today, Amazing Architecture, Nature, and Parametric architecture
For our cutting-edge and innovative technological outputs and achievements, its students and mentors' works have been invited to participate in the Venice Biennale, G. F Smith Paper City Exhibition, UCL B-Pro show, THU Design Futures · Shared Vision, V&A, HKFYG Exhibition.
Latent RADDicals is a design research project and exhibition exploring Resource Availability Driven Design (RADD), a workflow for building with unpredictable, discarded materials like wood, stone, and architectural waste. When conventional manuals don't exist, we turn the unknown into a design driver.
Our process begins by digitally scanning salvaged materials into a dynamic inventory, creating "digital passports" of their form and potential. Using generative algorithms like Wave Function Collapse, we extract spatial logics from real-world patterns to recompose new architectural formations.
This iterative approach merges tacit knowledge with computational precision. XR tools guide physical assembly, creating a feedback loop between human intuition and machine logic. Latent RADDicals embodies "No One Has Taught Me This," emphasising improvisation, experimentation, and hands-on making. This cyber-physical craft system promotes a circular, resource-conscious design future where learning emerges through action, tacit craft knowledge, and emerges from "doing," not just "knowing”.
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