Outpost Office and Texas A&M Students Develop Large-scale, Temporal Labyrinth Installation

The installation was installed on the TAMU Architecture Quad using temporary turf marking paint that will gradually fade over the next few weeks.

Outpost Office and Texas A&M Students Develop Large-scale, Temporal Labyrinth Installation

Outpost Office (Assistant Professor of Architecture Ashley Bigham and Erik Herrmann) and students from Texas A&M’s American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS) chapter participated in a workshop that produced a labyrinth on the Texas A&M Architecture Quad.

The pattern on the Architecture Quad at Texas A&M is the outcome of a weekend workshop with students from A&M's Department of Architecture chapter of the American Institute of Architecture Students. Students worked with Columbus-based architecture practice Outpost Office (@outpostoffice) of the Knowlton School at Ohio State to develop patterns based on labyrinths and mazes to draw at 1:1 scale using a Turf Tank robot. The installation is temporal, using temporary turf marking paint that will gradually fade over the next few weeks.

The workshop was led by A&M Assistant Professor James Michael Tate as part of the 2021-2022 Department of Architecture Lecture Series entitled, ASSEMBLY, co-organized with faculty members Shawn Lutz and Tyrene Calvesbert.

Documentation and photography support for the project was provided by Austin-based photographer Leonid Furmansky and A&M telecommunications student Emily Martin.

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