Straw Grammar: Translating Korean Vernacular Craft into Architectural Knowledge in a Post-Digital Context

Each autumn, millions of tons of rice straw remain across the Korean landscape. Historically embedded within systems of making, agriculture, and everyday life, this material has largely disappeared from contemporary architectural discourse. After the Harvest begins from this absence.

The project proposes Straw Grammar as a framework for reading vernacular straw craft as a form of architectural knowledge. Through eight material operations—weaving, bundling, compression, tension, molding, layering, mixing, and infill—the research traces the transformation of agricultural fiber into structure, enclosure, and space. Computational tools are deployed not to generate form, but to reveal latent patterns embedded within craft practices.

Rather than treating straw as a sustainable substitute, the project positions it as a medium through which material behavior, embodied knowledge, and computation can participate in the production of architecture. The result is not a return to tradition, but an inquiry into how vernacular intelligence might operate within the post-digital present.