Digory Macfarlane
MA work
MA work
Sawing Wood & Sipping Tea
Can building and working with timber induce a more spiritual way of life and thereby reinvent the architecture of the Heygate Estate as the calm haven that its original designers intended it to be?
Counter to its impending replacement by mass luxury housing we are proposing the Institue of Progressive Carpenters, where man and machine will work together, immersed in a natural and tranquil oasis amidst the bustle of South East London.
Utilising the underlying concepts found within the Japanese tea ceremony, together with a marriage of traditional carpentry techniques and modern timber technologies, the unique training facility encourages and explores new ways of working with fabrication robotics. It will promote experimentation in programming in ways that are currently restricted and under explored within the manufacturing industry, expanding the creative potentialities of robotics in the fields of carpentry, architecture and industrial design. Effectively, the Institute of Progressive Carpenters will be training the machine to work in sympathy with wood, as man has done for thousands of years.
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MA Degree
School
School of Architecture
Programme
MA Architecture, 2013
Specialism
ADS5
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Sawing Wood & Sipping Tea
Can building and working with timber induce a more spiritual way of life and thereby reinvent the architecture of the Heygate Estate as the calm haven that its original designers intended it to be?
Counter to its impending replacement by mass luxury housing we are proposing the Institue of Progressive Carpenters, where man and machine will work together, immersed in a natural and tranquil oasis amidst the bustle of South East London.
Utilising the underlying concepts found within the Japanese tea ceremony, together with a marriage of traditional carpentry techniques and modern timber technologies, the unique training facility encourages and explores new ways of working with fabrication robotics. It will promote experimentation in programming in ways that are currently restricted and under explored within the manufacturing industry, expanding the creative potentialities of robotics in the fields of carpentry, architecture and industrial design. Effectively, the Institute of Progressive Carpenters will be training the machine to work in sympathy with wood, as man has done for thousands of years.
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Degrees
- BA (Hons), Architecture, Brighton, 2009; Foundation Diploma, Art and Design, Camberwell College of Arts, 2005
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Experience
- Architectural assistant, Davies Maguire + Whitby, London, 2011–12; Architectural designer, RIBA/Southbank Centre, London, 2011; Architectural assistant, Conran & Partners, Brighton, 2009–10; Assistant model maker, A Models, London, 2009
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Exhibitions
- 21st International Student Exhibition, Kyoto Arts Centre, Kyoto, Japan, 2012
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Awards
- Winner, Architecture, Noel Davies Fund Prize for Outstanding Graphic Technique, 2009; Selected for Kyoto City University of Arts Exchange Programme, 2012
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Publications
- Power and Production: Festival of Britain, Phaidon online, Phaidon, 2011; Forgotten Spaces AJ Special Edition, Architects Journal, EMAP Publishing, 2010