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​TENSEGRITY CEILING INSTALLATION
FIRST YEAR STUDIO—TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY
​SPRING 2016
INSTRUCTORS: ALIREZA BORHANI + BARA SAFAROVA
​COLLAB : ADELINE KIM+JASON CASTO+MICHAEL VANDERMATE+JESSIE BULLARD

This 40' long ceiling installation was a commission from the Texas A&M Department of Architecture. Tensegrity was researched and explored in the production of the installation. Tensegrity can best be explained as the production of structural integrity through a balance of continuous tensile elements with discontinuous compression elements.