Digital Craft In Architecture
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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