Amazing TEX-FAB REPEAT Digital Fabrication Competition

Winners were recently announced to the TEX-FAB REPEAT Digital Fabrication Competition. The jury conferred and decided on the winning project that will be built for the TEX-FAB Event in Houston in February 2011: MINIMAL COMPLEXITY by Vlad Tenu. Of all the entries, the jury selected 1 Winner, 4 Runners-Up and 7 Honorable Mentions which will be exhibited along side the winner. Along with its aesthetic beauty, technical superiority and elegance of detailing, the proposal was chosen because it employs structural robustness, material efficiency and an inherent logic of assembly. A minimal periodic surface structure is created with the repetition of only 16 different components. A macro-scaled modular cellular pattern emerges through symmetry that is infinitely expandable and open-ended while becoming differentiated at its edges. Ornament functions as a simultaneous expression of the whole and the part working in dynamic equilibrium. Vlad Tenu is a Romanian Architect based in London. His ongoing research focuses on the integration of computation, science and technology in the architectural design process, involving generative computational methods, digital fabrication techniques and interactive design

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