MA in Digital Craft in Architecture at Oxford Brookes University
Oxford, UK
Jan – May 2025
by Chan Seng Koh | Nur Rasyidah Nizam
Tutors:
Adam Holloway | Sebastian Hicks | Elliot Rogosin
Collaborators:
Jianing Luo | Boyuan Yu | Make Architects (London)
Introduction
Latent RADDicals is data-driven design research that explores the architectural potential of decommissioned stone and building elements reimagined through AI-driven processes and XR-assisted construction techniques. The project investigates how upcycled components, paired with novel joinery systems, can contribute to creating neoclassical-inspired designs within community and urban-scale implementations.
The project emphasises upcycled feasibility, design scalability, and resource availability in circular AEC futures. It engages design experiments with(-out) the prototyping potentials of CAAD tools, navigating the harmony of intelligence and material unpredictability. Deconstructivist and subtractive architectural forms are prototyped through a binary design strategy to innovate evolving material life cycles and systemic reuse and repurposing.
Also, the project leverages Wave Function Collapse (WFC) as a generative algorithm, embedding real-world evidence and rationalist insights to extract and define rules and patterns from materials and joinery systems. Enables iterative design processes constrained by objective realities instead of human, guiding machine-driven architectural design methodology.
