Thursday, February 10, 2011

LAVA on show at a new exhibition Home - Real and Ideal at Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney.

The real and the ideal come together in home designs by the Laboratory for Visionary Architecture [LAVA] on show at a new exhibition Home - Real and Ideal at Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney.
HOME OF THE FUTURE
   

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

talk fest at LAVA

the inaugural computational design talk @ LAVA
courtesy of Ben Doherty ( BVN) where held last night.
Stuart Bull, Verena Hoch, Michael MAder and MAtthew Austin
delighted the audience with insides into works by Arup Zaha Hadid Architects and LAVA

Computational design talks at LAVA

Our three speakers this time are: Stuart.Bull from Arup, Verena Hoch from Zaha Hadid Architects, and Matthew Austin from LAVA.
Stuart will talk briefly about the use of multiple software including Generative Components, Rhino, Bentley Structures and Tekla Structures to deliver one of the spectacular structures, the Art & Science Museum by Moshe Safdie, within Singapore’s new Integrated Resort at Marina Bay. If time allows a brief presentation on the new bolted stone art installation within the botanical gardens by renowned stone sculptor Chris Booth, using Rhino to create the complex models of the layered stone stratas and fabrication level models.
ZHA's stone towers
Verena Hoch will be talking about about the façade design development of cairo stone towers and Bonn Symphony Hall competition
Matthew Austin will talk about a recent LAVA project (the Astana railway station competition) in respect to how MEL scripting and the Rhinoceros toolset were used to negotiate design outcomes, structural efficiency and the digital fabriation process.
the Talks are part of the series organised by Ben Doherty of BVN <Ben_Doherty@bvn.com.au>