Nick Tyrer

Nick is an Architect and Computational Designer with a passion for Fabrication. He aspires to create joyful public spaces and novel experiences.

Named RIBA Rising Star in 2019, a ‘digital innovator currently rising to the fore’, Nick uses Creative Computation to make bold and fun designs, often utilising strong geometric patterns.

Alongside his personal design projects, Nick is an Associate Director at Pattern Design and Studio Tutor at Abstract Machines.

Nick is a design lead at Pattern, a practise that specialises in Stadia design. Generally focusing on large complex structures such as the stadium façade and roof. These packages involve a high technical and computational knowledge to design, develop, coordinate and construct.

While Abstract Machines is an experimental design studio, that explores fabrication through innovative computational design methodologies and CAD/CAM technologies. The studios most recent completed live project Greathem Creek won a Structural Steel Design award and was shortlisted for the RIBA NE Award.

Awards:

• RIBAj Rising Star 2019 - Winner

• RIBA Presidents Silver Medal - Shortlist

• RIBA NE Award - Shortlist

• RIBAj MacEwen Award - Longlist

• Structural Steel Design Award - Winner

• Hays Prize ‘Best Architectural Design Project’ - Winner

• Stratasys - Global Design Challenge - Winner

• BDP - Gotham City - Winner

• UNI: Tactile - Material Excellence Award - Winner

• Modelo Design - First Prize