college station TEXAS

Team Members:
ryan COLLIER
michael TOMASO
gabriel ESQUIVEL
The project was awarded an honorable mention in the REPEAT competition organized by TEXFAB November 2010.

gabriel ESQUIVEL: There is a vast precedent in fabrication projects that deal with the idea of weaving, however within those projects there are more specific techniques. This project concerns itself specifically in the spiral or coil. In “Tooling” Aranda/Lasch describe this technique as, “the spiral (which) is not so much the shape as the evidence of a shape in formation.”(1) This idea implies constant movement as a desired effect - something architecture has historically aspired to.

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