John Naylor is a UK based architect and researcher. He gained his Diploma at the AA in 2013, winning the Fosters Prize for Sustainable Infrastructure. He has worked at MAD, Beijing and Singapore University of Technology and Design on complex projects in the UK, Singapore, Malaysia, China and Haiti, and most recently the Eden Project in Qingdao. In 2014 he set up the AA’s bamboo Visiting School programme in Haiti, which he now co-leads as the AA-ITB BambooLab with Andry Widyowijatnoko. He is currently studying a PhD in Engineering at Newcastle University which applies algorithmic design tools in a design approach to full-culm bamboo in architecture, with a continued focus on Haiti, and in 2022 he was named one of the RIBA Rising Stars.

Andry Widyowijatnoko is an architect, lecturer and researcher at the Building Technology Research Group, School of Architecture, Planning and Policy Development, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia. He started working with bamboo in 1999, developing plastered bamboo construction for low-cost housing. One of his achievements in design is the award-winning Great Hall OBI, an oval building with a span of 20m to 30m made entirely of bamboo. He gained his doctoral degree from the Chair of Structures and Structural Design, Faculty of Architecture, RWTH Aachen, Germany in 2012, with the dissertation ‘Traditional and Innovative Joints in Bamboo Construction’. He is now focusing on the advanced application of bamboo such as in tensegrity structures, reciprocal frames, tensile structures and space structures with new design approaches such as parametric design.

CEPT Coordinator(s): Sankalpa Sankalpa

• Hands-on experience with full-culm bamboo and joint systems
• Algorithmic design thinking for material-led processes
• Environmental and structural optimisation with tutorials in Grasshopper and Ladybug
• Physical model-making and small-scale construction
• Lecture series on bamboo standards and species within the context of India
• Exploration of societal attitudes and policy frameworks for bamboo adoption
• Networking opportunities with global experts

A non-refundable £60 deposit is required from all applicants upon application and will be deducted from the total fees below:
 

• £835 — Standard Programme Fee (including a 1-year AA Digital Membership worth £60)
• £715 — AA Member Fee
• £620 — AA Full-time Student and AA Staff Fee
• £720 — Fee for Full-time students of Melbourne University (including a 1-year AA Digital Membership worth £60)

Fees do not include flights or accommodation, but accommodation options can be advised (though the AA, ITB, nor CEPT, can take responsibility for the accommodation chosen by participants). Participants need to bring their own laptops, digital equipment and model making tools. Please ensure this equipment is covered by your own insurance as the AA takes no responsibility for items lost or stolen at the workshop.

Participants must bring laptops and model-making tools.