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Tech-Folk: Independent Townhall Village

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Unit PG14
Year 5
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  • Sir Andrew Taylor Prize

The Tech-Folk Movement proposes a new independent townhall for Plovdiv, Bulgaria where technocratic innovation and vernacular lifestyle fuse into a new civic model. It builds on the lessons of Revival era marketplace towns which relied on peer-to-peer relationships with no central authority to form a network of autonomous communities.

The Tech-Folk framework provides a comprehensive architectural language by synthesising the character of the local vernacular into a new spatial and tectonic system for urban development which is open, flexible, customisable, and automated. It proposes a design-to-fabrication computational methodology for freeform timber frames based on CNC milling tables and timber panel lamination.

The goal is a vision of a hybrid lifestyle which allows for the simultaneous coexistence of technology and myth, civicness and community, building and landscape.

New Cliff Square and the Park Walk

Revealing the natural cliff face and opening the Townhill to the public.

Panlam: New Freeform Timber System

The Panlam algorithm: from 3D line network to panel-laminated assemblies.

The Forest Marketplace

Commerce, showroom, and festivals under the great tree.

Initial Panlam Exploration: Fragment

Developing a network from joints and semi-linear elements.

The Cyber Arena: Fragment

Hill Walk and Hill Park integrated in a new public event space.

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The Bartlett
Summer Show 2022
01 – 16 July 2022
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