Design for Manufacture Projects

Improvised timber fabrication is explored through precisely made tool augmentations that enable accurate, adjustable cuts, linking on‑site sensitivity with controlled architectural making.

This project develops a soft robotic inchworm‑inspired actuator using pneumatics to create adaptable, safe movement for navigating building elements and exploring new concrete casting methods.

This project explores laminated timber shaped for varying stresses, using skateboarding as an extreme load-case to test flexible composite forms and question assumptions of rigidity.

This project develops a lightweight kinetic façade using bimetal strips and patterned fabrics to create passive solar‑driven movement and shifting moiré shadow effects across existing buildings.

This project develops digital methods to scan, classify, and assemble irregular stone fragments, using AR guidance to construct precise structures from low‑energy, non‑standard quarry waste.

This project develops a mouldless robotic ‘push and print’ method that fuses thermoplastics with felt to form lightweight composite textiles shaped for structural or movement‑based performance.

This project combines cast clay tiles with bent wood elements to form rationalised free‑form surfaces, demonstrating how hybrid fabrication can create complex, graded ceramic assemblies.

This project uses CNC‑cut kerfing patterns with steam‑bending to improve timber deformation, enabling faster, controlled bending of ash across varying geometries with minimal material removal.

This project investigates actively bent plywood sheets held in tension to form lightweight spatial structures, demonstrating how elastic deformation can generate smooth, efficient forms.

This project develops free‑form glass assemblies by using heat‑softened sheets shaped by gravity over control points, producing catenary channel panels exploring light, form and structural behaviour.

This project uses subtractive machining and digital simulation to programme light behaviour into aluminium surfaces, linking fabrication parameters with controlled reflective and optical effects.

This project develops interlocking timber joints made with digital fabrication to form a self‑supporting reciprocal structure assembled without hardware.