The Force by Yaseen Bhatti

Project overview

Yaseen completed Part II with distinction at Manchester School of Architecture. The Force was completed with Michael O’Reilly, Jingsi Sun and Yingying Zhou, and was awarded the Steacy-Greenaway Prize for the Outstanding MArch Academic Portfolio.

Set in the asteroid belt, the project proposes an adaptive aggregated system. Primitive AI solvers and complex rules help determine how typologies are arranged, making the project as much about process as it is about final form.

How the computational design idea works

• The project begins with rules, not a fixed building object.
• Typologies are arranged through a responsive system.
• The asteroid-belt setting pushes the work beyond normal site assumptions.
• Automation is used as a design tool rather than a visual gimmick.
• The portfolio value comes from explaining the logic clearly.

Why this matters in a portfolio

Computational design can impress quickly and confuse just as quickly. A strong portfolio has to explain the human or spatial purpose behind the method: what the system tests, what decisions it supports, and why the outcome matters.

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Showcase a computational design project

Architecture Social can feature speculative and computational work where the rules, process and design outcome are explained clearly.

• Name the design problem before the toolset.
• Explain the rules that drive the system.
• Show what the computational process helps decide.
• Translate technical ambition into a readable project story.

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Architecture Social view

Stephen’s recruiter view is that computational design candidates are easier to understand when they can explain the judgement behind the system. Practices need to see the thinking, not only the software confidence.