Visitors to the Tasmanian Craft Fair will be welcomed by a structure built by more than 20 University of Tasmania architecture students.

UTas lecturer, Peter Booth, estimates each student spent more than 150 hours on the project.

“We were asked to make a memorable entry way for the Tasmanian Craft fair and we basically had a free reign of what it would look like,” student Samuel Collins said. 

Mr Collins hopes patrons will stop and admire the structure and think ‘how did they make that?’. 

Student Thomas Gillie said they have done lots of prototyping to test the shape, how well the structure can bend and the strength of the plywood. 

Mr Booth said the structure was an interesting mix of using traditional methodologies of construction with digital fabrication technologies. 

“Obviously we’re dealing with a bunch of experimental processes as well as structures. There is a lot of complexities in what we’re doing to understand the materials,” Mr Booth said.

“They’re all materials off the shelf at Bunnings. They’re nothing special. They’re just about using a standardised material that is very common to do more interesting things.”

The Craft Fair runs from November 4 to 7 at Deloraine.