LAVA in Barcelona

we are here at the World Architecture Festival in Barcelona. Yesterday LAVA presented the Masdar plaza in UAE with Gerard Evenden, director at Foster + Partners to the world architecture community. This year LAVA was on the jury with a long list of people including Kieran Long , Charles Jencks and Bjarke Ingels to award the world's best buildings. Finalists and winners in their category from Australia included McBride Charles Ryan for the Klein Bottle house; Choi Ropiha for the Times Square ticket booth; and Allan Jack and Cottier for the Berry Sports Hall.
Barcelona presented itself in the best weather!!

LAVA in DOHA

LAVA has designed the VIP and Sponsor Hospitality Village for the Qatar Tennis Tournaments in association with DESIGNSPORT. Implementation by DESIGNSPORT/THELOOKCOMPANY.

> Sony Ericsson Championships Women's Tennis Tournament

LAVA and adam and eve

"I am working in my grass green office between lava lamps and coffeeshops in surry hills. Behind me is LAVA design for the Michael Schumacher Tower, Abu Dhabi UAE"

LAVA in Perth

wow,

this must be the nicest review we have ever had for a talk...:

PERTH, we LAVA YOU

"Happy Architecture Week Perth-ites. I just got back from the Institute’s Chris Bosse (LAVA) talk – absolutely brilliant! He was so so so good, a real inspiration. I really wish they had have made the tickets cheaper – i reckon you could have easily got quite a few hundred young architects, students and other interested people to come along – and they would not be disappointed. Its great that Perth managed to get such an awesome talent to come over here, even if he is just here for a few days. I really enjoyed hearing the way LAVA explore the concepts of space, functionality, beauty, structure and atmosphere as being essential ingredients to all their design explorations.

LAVA get a lot of their inspiration from nature and use computer modelling and calculation tools quite extensively to work through different options as solutions are investigated. Chris went through the design of the Beijing Olympic Water Cube Project. Quite amazing, the 6 000 bubbles are made up of 22 000 individually sized and individually load-calculated steel members. And there are so many integrated environmental principles, like the insulated but openable walls and ceilings, and great amounts of natural light, and its also a very functional building for the swimming competition users.

And that was just the first half hour…i could go on about them all night. If you ever get a chance to listen to any of the LAVA crew talk about their work please go, they are great!

Oh and anyone who hasn’t checked out their Masdar City Centre proposal – check it out, its beautiful!"

LAVA wins the 2009 Environmental Award at the Cityscape Awards Ceremony

We are pleased to announce that LAVA won the 2009 Environmental Award at the Cityscape Awards Ceremony last night, for the MASDAR MHCC project.


The project was up against strong competition, with District 49 in Dubai by Klingmann Architects, and Sime Darby Idea House in Malaysia by Broadway Malyan. The award was for any project entered in any category that the judges felt exemplified stronger ideas regarding environmental awareness and architectural integrity.


Gary Power accepted the award on LAVA’s behalf, and in his acceptance speech he acknowledged the great contribution of the team, specifically Arup, Transsolar and Edaw.


Please see attached photos of the certificate and statuette,

Congratulations to LAVA and the whole team.

MSWCT on eco asia

LAVAs design for the first Michael schumacher world championship tower, also known as the snowflake tower, due to its inherent geometry based on snowflakes, keeps attracting publicity.

Launched at the 2008 Cityscape exhibition in Dubai in the presence of the formula one legend himself, the project has gained international recognition , with currently 39000 webhits for lava +mswct and publications, lectures and exhibtitions on the worldstage.
Most recently LAVA`s unique design was featured on Etihad magazine, Qantas magazine, Australian financial Review, Sydney morning herald and was the centrepiece of Prof Tobias Wallissers Lecture about "Paramatric cathedrals of the future" in Berlin Zurich London and Bologna.

http://www.eco-asia.info/content/en/sp-mswct

LAVA at emerging architects exhibition sydney

LAVA nominated for contractworld.award 2010.

photography: David Simmonds

LAVA nominated for contractworld.award 2010.

623 projects from architects and interior designers from 34 countries were considered in four categories in the Deutsche Messe AG’s contractworld.award for 2010. LAVA was shortlisted in the “New Generation” with its Sherman Bibliotheca a stunning architectural installation for displaying catalogues and other publications commissioned for the first anniversary of the Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (SCAF) in Sydney. LAVA will present the project on 18th January 2010 at the contractworld, at the Exhibition Centre, Hannover.

http://www.contractworld.com/ http://www.sherman-scaf.org.au/

MSWCT animation by LAVA

LAVA at Sydney artichoke-night-school-event

LAVA at SYDNEY architecture Festival

Architectural places – Digital spaces

LAVA @ AA|FAB Symposium during the London Design Festival

vote for lava as designer of the year

http://www.idea-awards.com.au/round-03/chris-bosselava/

Atelierillume and MIR make Masdar look good!

A lot of people asked us about the stunning visualisations for our Masdar project:

here they are:
all the aerial shots of the masterplan, plaza , hotel canyons and retail interiors are done in Sydney by Simon Perry and his amazing team at:
http://www.atelierillume.com.au/
Simon has an incredible taste and sense for lighting and detail.
This shows also in the Animation ( see earlier blog)

Atelierillume does many of Sydneys/Australias great visualisations for residential and commercial developments.




The Plaza shots day and night by the fabulous MIR in Norway
http://mir-visuals.com/
We found MIR on the web and were amazed by the atmosphere of their renderings.



thanks so much for your support
Atelier Illumine and MIR

future hotel on CNN

masdar team

Long overdue but better late than never
below is the competition team for stage 1 and 2 of LAVA MASDAR

Chris Bosse, Tobias Wallisser, Alexander Rieck

with Sebastian Schott and Jarrod Lamshed,

Michael Huiss, Timothy Schreiber, Kristof Gavrielides, Stephan Albrecht, Dominyka Mineikyte, Kim Nguyen Ngoc, Anh-Dao Trinh, Martin Völkle, Erik Escalante, Gilles Retsin, Esan Rahmani, Justus Dietz, Achim Kaufer, Ania Apolinarska, Sirri Jundi, Jonas Epper, Alana Green, Pascal Tures, Andrea Dorici

mswct workshop

parametric mswct

masdar plaza images

masdar plaza by lava animation

animation contains scenes by http://www.atelierillume.com.au/
and is edited by Kristof Gavrielides

Tobias Wallisser Talk in Sydney

Tobias talked at the University of technology about parametric cathedrals in the age of digital design

LAVA designs - Dubai wins ! 2013 world swimming championship

LAVA and Designsport created visionary games overlay and imagery for the successful bid.
Chris Bosse, LAVA asia pacific is very excited, after the Watercube Beijing 2008 to be involved with the design of swimming venues again.
congratulations UAE! 2013 here we come!

LAVA on MASDAR website

LAVA tiger lights up

Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation Bibliotheca by LAVA

A new architectural installation commissioned for the first anniversary of the Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (SCAF) in Sydney creates a spectacular space for displaying catalogues and other publications. Designed by LAVA changing lights and effects will adapt and grow in response to each new gallery project creating an ephemeral and surreal experience. http://www.sherman-scaf.org.au/

LAVA lectures: Tobias at digital matters symposium

http://www.detail.de/artikel_digitalisierung-entwurfsprozess-fh-trier_24071_De.htm

LAVA guestblogger at mecho

parametric honeycombs

we discovered this material in a furniture factory in melbourne.

it is used to fill sandwhich panels and makes great furniture or light or ..

LAVA wins Best International Interior Design for Future Hotel

2009 Interior Design Awards Results
Best International Interior Design
Interior design awards>>>

LAVA designs MTV AWARDS

VODAFONE MTV AUSTRALIA AWARDS 2009

The Killers, Jessica Mauboy, Vanilla ICE and SIA performed live on the set created by LAVA for the Vodafone MTV Australian Music Awards, screening to over 500 million homes across the world. The immersive environment featured new projections including balloons, Sydney at night and microscopic cells, for each band in a unique collaboration with TOKO graphic design and Robyn Pyon. The set used 700 square metres of white lycra, weighed 80 kgs and can be packed up into a suitcase. LAVA worked with MakMax on the fabrication and workflow. www.mtv.com.au/vodafonemtvawards

LAVA at cityscape

in front of the Masdar Plaza

LAVA future hotel on BBC

watch future Hotel on BBC >>>

LAVA BOOK LAUNCHED AT KL DESIGN WEEK

LAVA BOOK LAUNCHED AT KL DESIGN WEEK
The life size digital Tassie tigers also turned up in KL as part of the inaugural KL Design Week 27th March – 4th April. Chris Bosse created an origami installation with local architecture students, launched an especially commissioned 70-page hard cover book on LAVA projects, and gave a master class on his projects. http://www.kldesignweek.com/

LAVA receives award by AAFAB Research Cluster

The FAB Research Cluster at the Architectural Association in London announces the results of the 2009 AAFAB Awards. The Award theme was ‘Designing Fabrication’ and the jury was interested in recently built projects that exemplify the innovative integration of design and fabrication processes through digitally driven design systems and protocols, and whose completion contributes to an international discourse on the use of emerging design and fabrication technologies.

The six award recipients will present their work at an AAFAB conference during London Design Festival week from 19-27 September. http://www.aa-fab.net/

Laboratory for Visionary Architecture Digital origami tigers

Digital origami tigers took over Tassie during the Ten days on the Island Festival. University of Tasmania's School of Architecture and Design students explored the potential of working with digital design in a two‐day workshop with LAVA Chris Bosse. The Japanese art of paper folding was translated into an architectural exploration of how the folding and repetition of modular elements can create complex and evocative spatial forms. The result: 250 thylacine‐shaped pieces were slotted together to form the seven sculptural mobiles in Spatial Origami in the foyer of the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery. http://www.tendaysontheisland.org/

LAVA in MARK magazine

Lava is featured in MARK magazine, the international arcitecture magazine

Future Living – Michael Schumacher Tower launched in Abu Dhabi

MSWCT

For release on October 7, 2008

Future Living – Michael Schumacher Tower launched in Abu Dhabi

Today at Dubai cityscape, Formula 1 legend Michael Schumacher presents the design for The Michael Schumacher World Champion Tower, the first in a series of seven towers to be built worldwide.

“The Tower marks a departure from traditional architectural thinking.”, state the architects Chris Bosse and Tobias Wallisser.

The tower designers represent a new generation of architects, being responsible as associate architects for world recognised structures such as the Watercube in Beijing and the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Germany. Just one year ago, they founded LAVA, the Laboratory for Visionary Architecture, a worldwide architectural network, together with architect Alexander Rieck, innovation expert at the Fraunhofer institute in Stuttgart.

“The project brings together our previous experiences, the Mercedes-Benz Museum, a brand-owned museum with an extraordinary spatial concept exploring the latest digital design and fabrication technologies with the Water cube Beijing, an example of the highest performance of both the building and the athletes, creating a stunning atmosphere developed through the deliberate morphing of molecular science, architecture and phenomenology”, says Chris Bosse.

Inspired by the geometrical order of a snowflake and the aerodynamics of a Formula 1 racing car, the tower encapsulates speed, fluid dynamics, future technology and natural patterns of organisation. Rather than purely mimicking shapes in nature for their elegance and unpredictability, the architects learned from nature’s own geometrical orders creating highly efficient structures and intriguing spaces.

“We let the design unfold as a result of the project’s needs: optimal natural light and air distribution, maximum views, minimal structure, user comfort and an unrivalled water experience”, explains Tobias Wallisser.

The organisational principle of a minimal surface allowed the optimisation of the facade/floor area ratio and each apartment in the 59 storey luxury tower has unobstructed ocean views.

“The unique collaboration with Michael Schumacher gave us new insights. Technology, precision, speed, elegance, paired with human intuition and

extraordinary performance were a great source of inspiration for the design. Similar to the formula one operation, construction is a team sport with a lot of highly skilled experts. In this sense the architects take the driver seat in the process, taking the project to the physical limits of possibility”, adds Alexander Rieck.

The lower levels of the tower, traditionally the most difficult and least attractive area, has been reinterpreted as a series of prestigious wharf apartments, terraced similar to that of cruise ship decks. By widening the base, the tower is anchored into its surrounding water basin similar to the surrounding mangroves and nearby canals. The top Sky villas offer 270­degree views opposite the new cultural district on Saadiyat Island

The building features an iconic silhouette and a facade characterised by vertical slots with private balconies. A series of reflective fins generates a vertical dynamic and gives the building a constantly changing appearance. “The fins track the sun, control the solar shading and dissolve the rationality of the plan into a continuously evolving building volume”, says Tobias Wallisser “The facade’s continuous surface enables curvature with a lot of repetition and the potential for standardisation in the building process. State-of-the-­art engineering and innovative materials will be used to achieve a fully sustainable performance”, explains Chris Bosse.

The Tower Ground Breaking will be at the beginning of 2009, with a completion date around June 2011.

Client: Vedera Capital|Marasi Marketing Concept: PNYG:COMPANY, Dubai Architecture: LAVA (Laboratory for Visionary Architecture), Stuttgart|Sydney with Wenzel+Wenzel, Abu Dhabi

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