DesignWanted Features Wedge: Where Digital Glitches Become Architecture

The leading design platform DesignWanted recently published a deep dive into our studio’s unique methodology, describing our style as something that feels "both alien and familiar." The feature focuses on our core process—binder-jet printing in quartz sand—and how it allows us to create objects that look excavated rather than manufactured.

The article highlights several of our key experimental projects. It explores Epoch II – Anomalies, where we amplified digital errors from LiDAR scans to create structures that look as though they have survived geological time. It also covers our Wall Panels project, which used an AI model to process a still from the film Last Year at Marienbad, effectively bending a cinematic moment into a 3D-printed terrain of sand.

DesignWanted also shines a light on The Black Shop – Façade, our public installation in King’s Cross. By keeping the "blur and motion" of a LiDAR scan instead of cleaning it, we turned a digital glitch into a porous, architectural surface. As the feature notes, our work doesn't just imitate nature; it grows from a new logic where code, physics, and material curiosity meet.

For us, this feature validates our belief that technology is a tool for discovery. We don't strive for machine perfection; we strive for the emotion and abstraction that only happens when matter is allowed to find its own form.