Students turn plastic into fashion in spring departmental charrette

The Eiffel Tower, a superhero cape and many other distinctive looks rendered by Texas A&M Architecture students from discarded plastic bottles were the product of a department-wide charrette that kicked off the spring 2011 semester.

The students were asked to create masks and hats, but other than a restriction allowing only string to hold their creations together, students were limited only by their imaginations.

The charrette winners, selected a faculty jury, were Marie-Claire Bartmess, Valimira Gashi, Daniel Kelly, Kindall Stephens and Kathy Xiao.

- Posted: Mar. 1, 2011 -

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Contact:   Phillip Rollfing, prollfing@archone.tamu.edu or 979.458.0442.