ACADIA 2013: Tex-Fab

Tex-Fab

Digital Fabrication Alliance

The 4 finalists from the Tex Fab SKIN competition will be exhibiting their prototypes at the ACADIA Adaptive Architecture Conference, where the jury will review and announce the winners.

Tex Fab was formed by Brad Bell, Kevin Patrick McClellan, and Andrew Vrana in 2009 as an alliance in Texas that aims to foster the collaborative exchange between the academic, technical, and professional communities focusing on the exploration of parametric design and the digital production of building components. Bell, McClellan and Vrana each teaches a digital fabrication curriculum in different Universities in Texas, where they share common interest and dialogue in bridging back to the community to strengthen ties for the purpose of applied learning opportunities for their students. There is three primary ways that they collect, distribute, and share information about digital fabrication and parametric modeling: “Theoria (Lectures / Exhibitions), Poiesis (Workshops) and Praxis (Competitions / Commissions)”.

This year’s competition is named SKIN and as a digital fabrication competition, it asks architects, designers and researchers to speculate on its role, by exploring new methods to enable the performative qualities of a façade. The 4 finalists that will be exhibiting their prototype at the School of Architecture in Cambridge are:

[Project 2XmT]

[Cellular Complexity]

[Sense]

[Evaporative Folding]

More information on the competition can be found at http://tex-fab.net/skin-results/

[The ADAPTIVE ARCHITECTURE 2013 ACADIA] conference will be held at the

University of Waterloo School of Architecture in Cambridge from October 24-26, 2013. ACADIA is an international network of digital design researchers and professionals. These updates from students are to let you know about visiting groups, speakers, events and displays.