Designed by: Raphaël Monnier
Design Trust Affiliation: Design Trust Feature Grantee
Description:
While computational design tools are made globally accessible, real-world applications are limited by their complexity. Topology optimisation generates optimum shapes in response to specific sets of conditions and parameters, though often requiring technology that is unaffordable in emerging countries. During the isolation period confined in his office in Yangon, Raphaël Monnier developed a proposal that explores how computational design and vernacular architecture, when combined, can have a higher social impact. Resolving the discrepancy between the complexity of design and affordability of construction by using locally found materials and low-cost simple construction techniques to better integrate digital fabrication into ordinary real-world workflows. The output of this project is a booklet that will present new ideas for bamboo affordable housing units in Myanmar.
Image Credit: Raphaël Monnier