ATA Applied Technology in Architecture
2017–24

Applied Technology in Architecture (ATA) explore the complex synthesis of artefact and environment by applying architectural technologies to drive detailed design projects.

The way we build anew or adapt the existing built environment to climate change is an evolving process that requires a wide knowledge base. We explore hybrid solutions, utilising industrial and natural building cultures and encourage the critical use of innovative as well as more traditional materials and techniques.

Each year we explore a different theme or task such as pre-fabricated construction, de-mountability, self-build, climatic design, hybrid structures or transformation of existing buildings.

Through design and technical research, projects are developed as holistic environmental and tectonic systems of materials, assemblies and components. These have rigour and detail as closed systems but are also conceived in terms of relationships to context; environmental, material, economic, thermal, climatic and cultural.