ABSTRACT | Facing China’s challenging construction context, notorious for its high speed, poor detailing, and low budget, an ideal digital paradigm for non-standard architectural practice may be inaccessible. How-ever, a group of Chinese avant-garde practitioners has successfully bypassed these restrictions by including regional idiosyncrasies into their computation-driven design and materialisation methods. This paper raises the argument that a critical component to those successes is that their parametrically established exploration space responds to local constraints. Here, we study two non-standard façades from architectural practice Archi-Solution Workshop and discuss the architect’s strategies.