UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON, GERALD D. HINES COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE
02/11/11 - 05/21/11

TEX-FAB's REPEAT Digital Fabrication Competition was followed by an Exhibition within the expansive atrium of the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture building at the University of Houston. Exhibiting the winning entry Minimal Complexity alongside 4 Runner's Up and 7 Honorable Mentions from a pool of 72 entries from across the globe, the REPEAT Exhibition garnered international attention. Represented within the exhibition were designers from 18 countries on 5 continents.

Minimal Complexity, Designed by Vlad Tenu and fabricated and installed by TEX-FAB with generous support from the Crow Corporation sat at the center of the exhibition. Along with its aesthetic beauty, technical superiority and elegance of detailing, Minimal Complexity employed structural robustness, material efficiency and an inherent logic of assembly. As a minimal periodic surface structure Minimal Complexity was created with the repetition of only 16 different components. Ornament functions as a simultaneous expression of the whole and the part working in dynamic equilibrium.

The images below illustrate Minimal Complexity through the installation process and the final built work.

Minimal Complexity Design: Vlad Tenu
Exhibition Commission: TEX-FAB
Installation Manager: Thomas Behrman
Installation Team: Lazslo Pallagi, Brad Bell, Kevin P. McClellan and Andrew Vrana
Fabrication Sponsorship: Crow Corporation