The London School of Stonemasonry Part 1 Project 2021 Jordan Panayi University for the Creative Arts | UK Building Crafts College – Department for StonemasonryFounded in 1893, the Building Crafts College has been at the foundation of training apprentices in carpentry, construction, and stonemasonry. Since moving from Great Titchfield Street (100m from RIBA), to Stratford, its available significance has dramatically reduced physically and emblematically. The stonemasonry course has suffered primarily in this move, a reflection of the significant decline in the material’s use in modern sustainable construction. This project will look to rectify this, proposing a new satellite Department for Stonemasonry located nearby on Fish Island’s last industrial site as an emblem of craft, tectonics, sustainable construction, and enlightenment.Today, 71% of quarried stone becomes waste during extraction and shaping. This proposal looks to rethink this process by using 100% of extracted stone through four schools of construction within the department: Traditional, Digital, Restoration and Revolution.The underlying narrative of the project is one of enlightenment, from public to apprentice to master, using allegory expressed through details and material interfaces, earning the right to experience the building in its many forms. The details are designed to tell a story of learning - of material, of structure, of craft and of tectonics. The essence behind the journey to enlightenment is an allegory of my own as a student of architecture. Tutor(s) Alex Cotterill