The AA Emergent Technologies and Design (EmTech) programme and Hassell Studio are collaborating to create a new pavilion in Bedford Square. Titled Re-Emerge, the research agenda of the Pavilion is situated within the larger framework of production in a world with limited resources that cannot infinitely sustain current rates of growth.The pavilion will describe and explore new design and construction technologies that repurpose materials which have completed their first life cycle towards innovative structural formations. The project will address the themes of generative design, material computation, large-scale fabrication and assembly technologies, emphasising the pavilion's ecological impact from the early phases of the design process onwards. Re-emerge revives the tradition of building on Bedford Square as a collaboration between an academic programme at the school and partners from the world of practice, to test ideas at scale and imagine new possibilities.

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EmTech
Programme Head: Elif Erdine
Founding Director: Michael Weinstock
Studio Master: Milad Showkatbakhsh
Teaching Faculty: Abhinav Chaudhary, Eleana Polychronaki, Lorenzo Santelli, Felipe Oeyen
EmTech 2020-22: Amal Alshamsi, Jefry Babu, Nupur Gandhi, Amanpreet Kaur, Eleftherios Kourkopoulos, Yi Ju Lin, Clinton Glen Mendonca, Georges Junior Merheb, Pouyan Mohammadi, Ashwin Abraham Mukkaranath, Anna Sapountzaki, Naoki Tachikawa
EmTech 2021-23: Baris Doga Çam, Zhaoheng Chen, Ghazal Enayati, Maxence Fromentin, Ziyue Gao, Yanan Guo, Luis Bosoms Hernandez, Helen Yael Johnson, Anastasiya Katliarskaya, Anna Maria Oldakowski, Brendan O'Rourke, Rodrigo Maron Rius, Manya Singhal, Yixiao Xu, Chu Zhang

Hassell Studio
Head of Design: Xavier de Kestelier
Computational Design Lead: Jonathan Irawan

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