Clayton Prest
Product Lead at Open Systems Lab
Greater Sheffield Area United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolClayton Prest is a product-focused computational designer and digital construction specialist with nine years of experience blending architectural practice, parametric design, and open-source R&D. As Research & Development Lead at Wikihouse and Product Lead at Open Systems Lab, he designs open building solutions, digital fabrication tools, and pilot schemes that translate community-led ideas into buildable prototypes. Trained in architecture and seasoned by post-disaster community work in Christchurch, he combines participatory urbanism with pragmatic construction workflows. Now UK-based in the Greater Sheffield Area, he splits time between formal practice and advancing collaborative, code-driven construction methods—often turning experimental research into full-scale demonstrators. An unusual strength is his track record of bridging museum-scale prototypes and grassroots self-build systems, making complex digital tools accessible to non-technical builders.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Architecture, Architecture at Technical University of MunichMasters of Architecture (Prof.), Architecture, Masters of Architecture (Prof.), Architecture at Victoria University of Wellington
Github Skills (3)
bed10
high-performance8
cnc2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
wikihouseproject/Skylark
Oct 2021 - Dec 2022
The latest WikiHouse structural system, using standardised insulated blocks, for 1-3 storey buildings
Contributions:2 releases, 78 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 2 months
wikihouseproject/Wren
Aug 2016 - Mar 2022
Contributions:54 commits, 53 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 7 months
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