“Tectonic Reef” was a collaboratve workshop run by Melbourne University Digital Fabrication Lab, as an introduction to parametric modelling, culminating in a bamboo sculpture at the 2011 St Kilda festival. Working in Grasshopper, Maya and Rhino , the workshop engaged with growth based design such as L-systems and fractal algorithms to determine growth of modular geometries.In order to realise the installation, pariticiapants engaged in a vigorous process of documentations alongside with design experiments. Furthermore , varies materials and structural system were explored . Working from a digital medium , into scale card models and resin models, the bamboo skeletal structure was finally animated through these process-driven design techniques.