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Towards the end of my academic career at the University of Houston Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture, I was invited by one of my professors to take on a summer job to work on a physical model that represented the University's new fifty year plan for the campus.
My work was primarily in creating the content files for digital fabrication from Autocad, assembling the fabricated pieces into the buildings and wiring all of the electronics.
LITE Beam was a semester long class project in a first of its kind in the architecture curriculum. Digital Fabrication was an emerging concept for architecture as digital design modeling became more parametric and easier to manage manufacturing criteria. Our class was lead by Andrew Vrana and Joe Meppelink and this was the first iteration of this class that still exists today.
Our aim was a small studio, was to make a modular ceiling unit. Our materials were architectural foam, metal, acrylic and metal wire. I did work in Rhino, CNC file creation, electric wiring and assembly labor.
It was this class that sparked my love of parametric design and digital fabrication that primed me for BIM work and a life enriched with what could be done if better merged with technology.
