Performative Connections Studio – Embrace – visit YouTube to see the digital fabrication video, from finalized unit prototype to test laser cutting, the video documents the last 4 days of the Performative Connections Studio, co-taught by Armando Araiza and Kevin Patrick McClellan, at the UTSA COA. Embrace is a portion of an overall design solution for a theoretical redesign of the UTSA Downtown library, wherein the students developed several schemes to address issues of noise control, visual privacy and spatial delineation.
Brad Bell Lecture and Workshop at UTSA
Brad visited UTSA on March 26th to give a lecture on the work being done at UTA. Brad spoke about the TEX-FAB effort and the success of the February workshops, the impact on the school and within the architectural community there. His lecture covered a broad range of topics nested within the discourse of digital design, its implementation and processes. Additionally Brad lead a day-long workshop that covered both 2D and 3D parametric techniques within Adobe, Rhino/ Paneling Tools which resulted in small laser cut prototypes and digital structures.