Andrew Vrana's Blog (8)

Memory Cloud is the winning commission awarded to RE:Site (Norman Lee and Shane Allbritton) and METALAB (Andrew Vrana, Joe Meppelink, Michael Gonzales and Thomas Behrman) by Texas A&M University for the new Memorial Student Center 12th Man Hall. Through a competition and short-list interview process the team demonstrated the ability to harness the potential of…

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REPEAT is an international competition is established by TEX-FAB 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… Continue

REPEAT as an international competition is established by TEX-FAB

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… Continue

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010



University of Houston Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture Auditorium



What started as a studio project to rethink Frederick Kiesler’s unbuilt Grotto for Meditation has turned into an opportunity for scholarship and design. The unveiling of the digitally fabricated New Harmony Grotto is the first installation of a two tier project that will culminate in the publication of a forthcoming book. Please join us in celebrating the accomplishments of… Continue

Rajaa Issa, Andy Payne and Marc Fornes will be conducting Parametric Design workshops in Rhino using Grasshopper and VB Scripting along with members of TEX-FAB. We'll be at UT-Arlington School of Architecture, February 4-6, 2010. Go to www.tex-fab.net for… Continue

The AA|FAB Cluster at the Architectural Association organizes a competition to award new projects that employ digital design and fabrication in innovative ways. The parametric suspended ceiling system that Joe Meppelink and I developed with an exceptional group of students at the University of Houston College of Architecture 5500 Studio and DigiFAB with Scott Marble as visiting critic and Rajaa Issa as PT and GH instructional consultant impressed the jury who… Continue

This semester we’ve been teaching with Scott Marble at UHCoA in a Visiting Critics Studio and Digital Fabrication seminar. The focus of the work has been on “designed assemblies” and the use of parametric software (Grasshopper and Paneling Tools). The project was to design the Jury Space within the new Student Services Center in the Architecture Building. The students have developed a Ceiling Cloud that is… Continue