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OVERVIEW

Architecture is defined by connections: the method and the material by which an assembly is developed to create enclosure. This process results in an active performative connection, one that is specific and definitive producing an architecture that can be built through iterative means. REPEAT asks that you look first at the connection and then – through repetition – define the whole. In brief, by evaluating the design process from this perspective, what emerges?

REPEAT as an international competition is established to foster the creative spirit in the burgeoning field of digital fabrication. We encourage the generation of cutting edge design proposals for a structure of your design with the only caveats being it be generated and conceived digitally, incorporate repetitive elements, be optimized for relocation and transportation and be produced through fabrication technologies available within Houston, Texas.

Within cities with atomized light manufacturing capabilities like Houston, there exists a potential for designers to engage fabrication via direct communication with machines. A culture of making that has its foot in the energy and aerospace industries is ready to be appropriated and applied to architecture. The competition challenges the current exploration of parametric design to engage this latent field of production to explore a meaningful synthesis based on repetition and variation.

The evaluation of all the REPEAT proposals will focus on the cohesion of the design concept to digital fabrication techniques and methods of assembly. Factoring in these two foundational requirements for the competition, the entrant is encouraged to propose a solution that is both formally challenging in the mechanics and aesthetics of the connections, but also speak to the issues of use and performance.

COMPETITION REGULATIONS

COMPETITION CONTEXT FILES

COMPETITION POSTER

REPEAT QUESTIONS + ANSWERS

REGISTRATION FEE

Entry fee for all proposals 100 USD

AWARDS

WINNER
The winning entry will be built , exhibited and subsequently given to the winner. The design and fabrication of the piece will be paid for in full by TEX-FAB and installed to coincide with the TEX-FAB exhibition REPEAT, in February. NO design fee will be paid. However, a 1,000 USD stipend for travel and/or shipping will be awarded to the winner. The estimated value of the winning fabricated work is 10,000 USD.

HONORABLE MENTIONS
Honorable mentions will be awarded at the discretion of the Jury. All mentions will be exhibited at the REPEAT exhibition in Houston, Texas in February 2011

SCHEDULE
JUNE 16, 2010
AUGUST 16, 2010
AUGUST 30, 2010
OCTOBER 3, 2010
OCTOBER 31, 2010
NOVEMBER 18, 2010
NOVEMBER, 2010 – FEBRUARY, 2011		 Online Registration and Competition Regulations Available to the Public
Questions Due to TEX-FAB via Email
Questions Posted on TEX-FAB
Registration Deadline (Closed Midnight) 12:00 AM CST
Online Submission of Entries (Due Midnight) 12:00 AM CST
Jury Awards Made Public
Winning Design is developed, fabricated and installed in Houston
Jury

PATRIK SCHUMACHER Head of Jury
ZAHA HADID ARCHITECTS

Patrik Schumacher is partner at Zaha Hadid Architects and founding director at the AA Design Research Lab. Schumacher studied philosophy and architecture in Bonn, London and Stuttgart, where he received his Diploma in architecture in 1990. In 1999 he completed his PHD at the Institute for Cultural Science, Klagenfurt University. He joined Zaha Hadid in 1988.

In 1996 he founded the “Design Research Laboratory” with Brett Steele, at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, and continues to serve as one of its co-directors. Schumacher has co-taught a series of post-graduate option studios with Zaha Hadid at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Columbia University and at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University.

Since 2004 Patrik Schumacher has been tenured Professor at the Institute for Experimental Architecture, Innsbruck University. Currently he is a guest professor at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Schumacher’s contribution to the discourse of contemporary architecture is also evident in his published works and interviews which can be viewed here.

MARC FORNES
THEVERYMANY

MARC FORNES (registered Architect DPLG) is the founder and principal of THEVERYMANY™ – www.theverymany.net – a design studio and collaborative research forum engaging the field of architecture via what he qualifies as “Explicit and Encoded protocols”.

In 2004 he graduated with a Master of Architecture and Urbanism from the Design Research Lab of the Architectural Association in London after having previously studied in France and Sweden (KTH). Marc’s professional work experience in La Reunion, France, UK and the US includes SOM, Ross Lovegrove and Zaha Hadid Architects. Marc – together with Francois Roche (R&Sie(n)) – has been co-teaching “(n)Certainties” – a graduate studio hosted three times at Columbia University (NYC), once at the University of Southern California (Los Angeles) and once at Die Angewandte (Vienna) as its Cross Over studio. Marc also taught studio at University of Michigan (Spring 09) and at Harvard/GSD (Spring 10). He has previously led many workshops and appeared as a guest critic at the Architectural Association, The Royal College of Art, Columbia University, Pratt Institute, the University of Pennsylvania, Ball State University, in Chile, etc… In 2007 he produced & curated Scriptedbypurpose.

LISA IWAMOTO
IWAMOTOSCOTT

Lisa Iwamoto is partner of IwamotoScott Architecture, a practice formed in partnership with Craig Scott. Committed to pursuing architecture as a form of applied design research, it engages in projects at multiple scales and in a variety of contexts consisting of full-scale fabrications, museum installations and exhibitions, theoretical proposals, competitions and commissioned design projects. IwamotoScott’s work has been published widely nationally and internationally. Recent projects include: Obscura Digital Headquarters, PS House, Voussoir Cloud, ORDOS100; Hydronet City of the Future: San Francisco 2108. Iwamoto is Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture at The University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on digital fabrication and material technologies for architecture.. Her book, Digital Fabrications: Architectural and Material Techniques published by Princeton Architectural Press as part of their series Architecture Briefs.

CHRIS LASCH
ARANDA\LASCH

Established in 2003 by Benjamin Aranda and Chris Lasch, Aranda\Lasch is a New York-based studio engaged in both experimental research and innovative building. Winners of the Young Architects Award from the Architecture League and United States Artists Fellowship in 2007, their design work from buildings to installations to objects has garnered international recognition. Their early architectural projects were the subject of the critically acclaimed book, Tooling, published by Princeton Architectural Press. Aranda/Lasch has exhibited their work internationally in galleries and institutions dealing with design and architecture. In 2008 they were commissioned by the MoMA in New York to produce a large-scale installation in the museum. They also collaborated with artist Matthew Ritchie on a pavilion sized work, “The Morning Line,” initially installed at the 2008 Venice Biennial and then fully realized at the Seville Biennial in October. In addition to commercial and residential projects in New York, Aranda\Lasch recently completed a 42,000 square foot temporary structure for Design Miami in December. Objects and furniture designed by Aranda\Lasch are represented by Johnson Trading Gallery in New York.

BLAIR SATTERFIELD
HOUMINN

Blair Satterfield and Marc Swackhamer began their collaboration in Houston, in 1998. HouMinn (pronounced “human”) Practice, their present-day moniker, is both an acronym of two geographical locations that influence their work and a homophone to describe their research-based practice, which seeks collaboration with experts outside architecture. HouMinn projects have been featured in numerous publications, including Dwell and Fast Company, and have garnered prestigious honors such as the 2008 R&D Award from Architect magazine and the Best in Environments award from ID Magazine. In addition to HouMinn, Satterfield has worked for Atilier Fei Chang, Michael Bell Architecture (now Visible Weather), Oliver + Ray Architects, and Bricker + Cannady Architects, where he served as Director of Design for several years. He is a co-founding member of the web based modern home-plan company Hometta. Blair received his MARCH from Rice University and his BSAS from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Satterfield has taught at Rice, the University of Houston, and the University of Minnesota. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia.