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Chroma Booster Installation

November 19, 2014 by metalab

We have wrapped up the last stages of assembly of the "Cloud Tower" aka Chroma Booster with the addition of high-pressure mist plumbing and LED lighting in the collars that wrap around the pipe columns.  The work in Houston concluded with the tower placed in one piece on a truck and shipped to El Paso.  The installation is underway at the ballpark and final hookup to utilities will follow in a few weeks.


UHS complete

October 27, 2014 by metalab

The UH Stadium project with Jim Iserman is complete.  Stay tuned for images from the drone.


Seed, Trees, People

October 23, 2014 by metalab

We just completed another project with Randy Twaddle, Artist, with these three benches installed on the new mound constructed in Herman Park at the new Centenial Gardens designed by Hoerr Schaudt Landscape Architects.  Based on a Fibonacci series with three figures extracted and developed spatially as sinuous objects.  We worked with Escobedo Construction and their 5-axis OMAG robot to fabricate the benches from solid limestone.  The stone is anchored into the flat work with a fabricated stainless steel pan embedded in the concrete with a consistent 3/4" reveal maintained over 9', the length of the largest monolith bench.


Bench Installation

August 22, 2014 by metalab

Installation of the 3 benches at Herman Park with Randy Twaddle and Escobedo Construction.  Congratulations to Escobedo for their Texas Society of Architects Artisan Award.


UH Stadium art panel installation

July 07, 2014 by metalab

With two rain delays we were happy to see art panels for Jim Isermann's "Cougar Walk" to go in smoothly in one day by Gate Precast.  The 19 panels (4 on the wall and 15 on the ground) are 8'x8' and each weighs about 1500lbs.  The effects of the red glass and black onyx were nice to see relative to the colors of the metal panels on the stadium itself.  All will be done by game day later this summer!


Chroma Booster

June 20, 2014 by metalab

We are working with Matthew Geller, the artist who we teamed with on Open Channel Flow, for a new project in El Paso near the new ballpark.  The tower of pipes will emit a misting fog with integrated lighting to create atmospheric effects in the public plaza designed by SWA/Los Angeles.  Fabrication will begin soon and installation will occur before the end of 2014.


BARC canopy

June 20, 2014 by metalab

We are working with RE:site, the team that we worked with on Memory Cloud, on a new project at Houston Animal Adoption Center.  In the main entry foyer a canopy of catenary forms will hang over the vistors to the facility on their way to the adoption area.  Dog Leashes will be used to create a quilted pattern of forms.  We are using Grasshopper and Kangaroo to simulate the global geometry and different sorting algorithms to study the color patterns using standard 4', 6' and 8' leashes.


Dow School Park

June 17, 2014 by metalab

Renovation of the park and design/construction of a new pavilion at Dow School Park in the Sixth Ward of Houston.  The Long House combines outdoor recreation programs in a continuous organizational band covered by a series of  roof profiles and materials that are adapted from the Victorian era residential fabric surrounding it.  Historic sensitivity meets a contemporary programmatic mixture.  A collaboration between Metalab (Architecture) and Asakura Robertson (Landscape Architecture).


Robots in Texas

June 14, 2014 by metalab

We visited Escobedo Construction to view the first of three unique park benches.  Designed with Randy Twaddle, artist, the benches are being cut on a 5-axis OMAG robot in Kyle, Texas.  No two benches are the same and none of the exposed faces are planar.  This entry into robotic fabrication is exciting for us after attending the Robots in Architecture conference recently and now having to opportunity to apply this technology to a permanent installation for a new feature on top of a landscape in the renovation of Herman Park in Houston.  The benches are made out of Lueders Limestone in three sizes the largest of which will be monolithic, extending over 9' long and will weight over a ton.  The smallest one has been milled and will be finished by hand at this point with some faces left with the toolpath marks.  Each bench will have an inscription and the robot will engrave the text along the topological surface after the final round of finishing.  The tooling diameters range from 16" down to 1/8" end mill bits.


New Harmony Grotto update

May 19, 2014 by metalab

Students and faculty at UH worked with Ben Nicholson to revisit the New Harmony Grotto project.  Cellular Infill (Seating, Skylights and Living Wall), Site Design and a Footbridge for the site were designed and developed with the intention of finishing the project and providing a new series of material responses to the existing structure and landscape.


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