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Partial Architectures Exhibition Design

By admin | Published: October 28, 2009

The students at University of Texas Arlington have initiated preliminary investigations into the design and production of a display system for the Partial Architectures Exhibit set to open concurrently with the TEX-FAB Workshop. The exhibition will be up on February 2nd, 2009 with the formal reception taking place on Friday February 5th, 2009 @ 6:00pm on the second floor of the architecture building.

Scheme 01

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Scheme 02

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Scheme 03

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Scheme 04

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Scheme 05

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New Harmony Grotto assembly begins

By admin | Published: October 26, 2009

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The students at University of Houston College of Architecture have started the assembly process to build the New Harmony Grotto. The Keeland Center will be site for forming and fitting of the components to aggregate into ribs and connectors of the structure.

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AAFAB conference and exhibition

By admin | Published: September 29, 2009

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Metalab made the trip over to London to the Architectural Association to present the Ceiling Cloud project. Other presenters included our friend from GSAPP days, Ben Aranda of Aranda/Lasch. The discussion was moderated by Alan Dempsey of the AAFAB Cluster along with Brett Steele the Director of the AA. We had a look at the exhibition afterward which was part of the London Design Week events. Joe Meppelink and Andrew Vrana went over via New York and presented the project at Columbia and caught up with Scott Marble, our visiting critic on the project… More images… Bustler

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AMBOX visit

By admin | Published: September 3, 2009

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Students in the DigiFAB Seminar at the UHCoA toured the fabrication shop at AMBOX, Limited. They have extensive stamping and forming capabilities shown here. One product is the Kevlar helmets worn by the US military. They can produce 70 per day and have made over 100,000 of them since production began. Their 4000W CNC laser will cut the components for the New Harmony Grotto project later this month.

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Ceiling Cloud @ AAFAB

By admin | Published: August 24, 2009

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METALAB will present the Ceiling Cloud at the AAFAB Conference on Friday, 09/25 at the Architectural Association in conjunction with the exhibition opening in London. The project won first place in the open competition in the Interior category. We will present the project at Columbia GSAPP on Wednesday, 09/23 at noon with Scott Marble who was the Visiting Critic in the studio.

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