tranSTUDIO-Adaptive Thought Design and Fabrication- Texas A&M - Instructor: Negar Kalantar

tranSTUDIO is an architectural lab in the department of architecture at Texas A&M. To more effectively educate architecture students on addressing transformation itself as a design parameter, “Adaptive Thought, Design, and Fabrication” aims to address a comprehensive transformable design methodology. (https://thetranstudio.wordpress.com)

To provide certain fundamental and generic guidelines to students, this course is a path to achieving profound knowledge about the conception and realization of motion in architecture. This hands-on course is a step toward understanding how architecture students can orchestrate different aspects of transformable design. By acknowledging the presence of motion on a small scale (every detail and joint) to full scale (the whole structure), “Adaptive Thought, Design, and Fabrication” casts light on how an exploratory concept of motion can be oriented toward shaping a better environment, and how this concept can be constrained to suit different technical, economic, and cultural considerations.

tranSTUDIO 2015 students:
Tyler Boyett
Mike Cavazos
Ashley Feyes
Daniel Garcia
Trent Kelley
Matt Michalak
Ethan Miller
Eryka Morales Bueno
Eve Nnaji
Andrea O'Connor
Starla Schmidt
Leslie Tijerina
Jenny Zhou

Jonghoon Kim (TA)
Craig Boney (RA)