Exhibition · 2025
Resource-Availability-Driven Design
Irregular waste timber + Wave Function Collapse + MR assembly. 1:1.
RADD, built at 1:1. Irregular waste timber drives the design instead of the design demanding perfect stock. Every member carries a scanned material passport; a Wave Function Collapse solver places parts within their real tolerances; mixed reality guides the assembly by hand.
London Design Festival 2025. RADD starts from a simple inversion: what if the material you already have — irregular, reclaimed, imperfect — is the brief, not a constraint to be corrected?
Each offcut of waste timber is 3D-scanned into a “material passport” that records its real geometry and tolerances. A Wave Function Collapse solver then assembles these mismatched parts into a coherent whole, choosing placements that work with each piece’s irregularity rather than forcing it to a standard. The seed variants below are the same logic run with different starting conditions — each produces a different valid structure from the same pile of scrap.
On site, mixed-reality overlays guide the hand assembly piece by piece. The result is a 1:1 circular structure where no two members are the same and nothing is wasted — the through-line of all my work made physical: let the imperfect material lead.
