LAVA LIGHTS UP
LAVA’s new installation LIGHT VOID is touring in an international exhibition celebrating the 50th anniversary of Artemide, the famous Italian lighting company.
LAVA was one of 50 architects/designers from Germany, Austria and Switzerland invited to design a light installation. The designers were each given a blank, black box 35 x 35 x 35 cm in which to create a personal, visionary work about light for ‘DAS "BLACK BOX" PROJECT’. The only criteria were architectural quality and the use of light. Artemide says the results are 'philosophical, emotional, and mysterious light impressions'
LAVA LIGHTS UP
LAVA’s new installation LIGHT VOID is touring in an international exhibition celebrating the 50th anniversary of Artemide, the famous Italian lighting company.
LAVA was one of 50 architects/designers from Germany, Austria and Switzerland invited to design a light installation. The designers were each given a blank, black box 35 x 35 x 35 cm in which to create a personal, visionary work about light for ‘DAS "BLACK BOX" PROJECT’. The only criteria were architectural quality and the use of light. Artemide says the results are 'philosophical, emotional, and mysterious light impressions'.
LAVA TAKES SUSTAINABILITY TO SCHOOLS
LAVA'S amazing renderings for the eco city centre at Masdar in the UAE were the backdrop for the recent State Drama Festival produced by the Arts Unit, NSW Department of Education and Training. The performances were at the Seymour Centre on 28th - 29th October and featured performances on movement and a dialogue about future cities by primary aged kids from across the state.
Designed by Stukel Stone architects the set featured large scale drawings of the sunflower umbrellas opening and closing in the piazza in Masdar. Bosse said: 'this was a wonderful way to engage young kids with environmentally responsible solutions for the cities of their future.'
The i Light Marina Bay festival, Asia’s First Sustainable Light Art Festival
The free outdoor event directed by Mary-Anne Kyriakou runs from 15 October to 7 November 2010, and features LAVA's giant digital origami tigers.
The big cats playfully celebrated Chinese New Year on the forecourt of Customs House, Sydney in February 2010, and went on to tour Kuala Lumpur, and Berlin as part of a WWF Year of the Tiger awareness campaign.
The crouching digital tigers combine ancient lantern making methods with cutting edge digital design and fabrication technology, bringing east and west together through tradition and innovation.
Sydney’s digital origami tigers have been adopted by the World Wild Fund for Nature (WWF) for their international Year of the Tiger campaign.
The official launch of the giant origami tigers was at Hauptbahnhof, Berlin’s central station, where they will be on display until 30th August.Tobias Wallisser and Alexander Rieck opened the exhbition with the WWF.
Soap bubbles, coral reefs and trees will soon be at an office near you.
Chris Bosse has created a series of distinctive geometric desk screens for Climate, a new office furniture system produced by Schiavello. LAVA’s three Climate screens, with matching office supplies, will be launched at Saturday in Design in Melbourne on Saturday 07 August 2010.
Jennifer Hawkins struts out of seashell sculpture for spring/summer show
Summer, sand and seashells were the inspiration for the set designed by LAVA`s Chris Bosse and Amanda Henderson Gloss Creative for the Myer Spring Summer11 Collections Launch in Sydney Australia last night.
The giant seashell set was a sand-coloured plywood installation 18m long and 5m high, digitally designed and CNC cut and consisted of 2000 pieces put together like a puzzle.
FutureStory is an engagement project of Live Futures 2020 and is part of Sydney Design 2010, presented by the Powerhouse Museum. This project is about gathering future stories from Sydneysiders.
Through short videos of people sharing their story, FutureStory will inspire Sydneysiders to comment on other stories. Responses can be submitted using different forms of media such as written or video responses. After moderation all content will be displayed at participating venues, on www.futurestory.com.au and at the Live Futures 2020 Festival on 14th August 2010.
we attended an inspirational breakfast discussion this morning with David Rothschild.
David sailed accross the pacific in his catamaran made form recycled plastic bottles in order to raise awareness for the huge amount of discarded plastic in the oceans.
check out the website http://www.theplastiki.com/
The ship is amazing and very Buckminster Fuller inspired, who is also LAVA s inspiration for designing
MORE with LESS
on this occasion we want to republish the plastic house, which was designed a couple of years a go, but never got up. (until now)
This may be the time to revive the ideas for a more resource-conscious design approach on any scale from product, to house, to city.
What impact is climate change having on building design? And: How do you go about planning a zero-carbon city in the desert of Abu Dhabi? Masdar City, an urban development supplied exclusively with renewable energy, inspired the cover design for this issue. It shows the shading over the city’s central plaza, in a complex to be built in the coming years to designs by LAVA Architects.
Modell aus Pasta: Boris Rüther und sein erster Entwurf Foto: Zweygarth
Stuttgart - Er balanciert mit seinen langen Beinen auf dem Dünenkamm wie ein Artist. Plötzlich reckt er sein Hinterteil gen Himmel, senkt seinen Kopf und wartet auf die Nebelschwaden, die vom Atlantik aus in die Namibwüste ziehen. An diesem Ort, an dem es niemals regnet, ist der schwarze Käfer ein Überlebenskünstler: Feine Tröpfchen verfangen sich in winzigen Furchen auf seinem Rücken, sie vereinigen sich zu immer größeren Wassertropfen, die schließlich hinabrinnen in seinen Mund. Der Käfer trinkt aus dem Nebel und gräbt sich in der Glut der Mittagsstunden in den Sand ein, um sich zu kühlen.
The giant digital origami tigers are on the prowl again. After having been adopted by the WWF, the World Wildlife Foundation, for their Year of the Tiger program, they created a roar in KL for the KL Design Week they’re have just arrived in Europe, where they will roam Berlin and Moscow before going back to Asia to Singapore for the Smart Lights Festival in September .
Chris Bosse Asia Pacific Director of LAVA has again been invited to be a judge at the World Architecture Festival Barcelona 3-5 November 2010. Super Jury Chair is Arata Isozaki and other judges include Barry Bergdoll, John Patkau, Daniel Bonilla, Isay Weinfeld, and James McAdam.
LAVA has been nominated for the 2010 Iakov Chernikhov International Prize.
Established in 2006, the biennial 50,000 Euro Prize is given to an architect/s aged less than 44 years for an original and innovative architectural concept that both responds to our time and offers a professional challenge to the future.
on the weekend the 2010 KL designweek opened its doors with a ROAAARR, welcoming Sydneys Digital origami tigers, previously exhibited at Customs House.
The tigers further the realationship between sydney and KL and their respective design communities.
Chris Bosse will attend the Design week and speak on behalf of the AIA and Asialink on saturday 8th at the National Art Gallery Malaysia (Balai Seni Lukis Negara)
the tigers are on show at the Pavilion Kuala Lumpur 1st May - 13th May 2010
thanks to Izu, Juan, Suzanna and the entire KLdesignweek team, Century Logistics for freightforwarding and Jennifer Kwok customs house city of Sydney for their generous support and creativity.!!!
special thanks to WWF
Condom architecture
A team of Sydney-based designers are the pioneers behind an unusual proposal for encasing buildings with hi-tech sheaths. Jay Merrick unwraps 'condom architecture'
Eine neue Haut für den UTS Tower in Sydney und um die Welt reisende Origami-Tiger: Dies sind nur zwei der zukunftsweisenden Projekte von LAVA. Die drei deutschen Planer des Laboratory for Visionary Architecture mit Büros in Stuttgart und Sydney sind ständig auf der Suche nach neuen Räumen mit nachhaltigen Konzepten.
The DIGITAL ORIGAMI TIGERS are boarding a container ship tomorrow morning bound to Kuala Lumpur where they will be part of the 2010 KL design week.http://www.kualalumpurdesignweek.com.my
What initially began as a speculative proposal to reshape the UTS tower on Broadway has evolved into a broader architectural idea for re-purposing inefficient or outdated buildings as an alternative to demolishing and rebuilding ( which comes with a huge financial and environmental expense) LAVA has developed a simple, cost effective and easily constructed building skin that can potentially transform the identity, sustainability and interior comfort of an existing structure such as the UTS tower.
The ‘skin’ is a translucent cocoon that can create its own ‘micro climate’. It can generate its own energy with photo-voltaic cells, could collect rain water, improve the distribution of natural daylight and it can use available convective energy to power the building’s ventilation requirements.
A pre-existing building is wrapped with three-dimensional lightweight, high performance composite mesh textile. Surface tension allows the membrane to freely stretch over a light steel frame around walls and roof elements achieving maximum visual impact with minimal material effort.
The skin with embedded LED strips could act as an intelligent media surface and be used for dynamic animation and to communicate information into the public realm – effectively integrating principles of architecture, fashion, media and communication design into a new hybrid typology.
“A re-skinned UTS Tower could be an example of sustainability, innovation, cutting edge design and creative education, without demolishing and rebuilding the 1960s icon,” says Chris Bosse, Director of LAVA.”When it was built the Broadway tower was cutting edge, with latest building technologies and principles that have partially become obsolete.”
The reskinning technology could be easily applied to other buildings in need of a facelift such as the Goulburn street carpark, Sydney. One quickly and cost-efficiently enhance their performance and aesthetics through this minimal intervention.
The re-skin concept continues LAVA’s research into sustainable public architecture by combining lightweight contemporary materials with the latest digital fabrication technologies with the aim of achievingmore(architecture)with less(material/energy/time).
All images and Photographs by LAVA
Laboratory for Visionary Architecture Asia Pacific
Chris Bosse, Tobias Wallisser, Alexander Rieck
Jarrod Lamshed, Erik Escalante, Esan Rahmani,
Niklas Muehlich, Kim Ngyuen Ngoc, Anh-Dao Trinh,
JonasEpper Stefan Bassing, Simone Martin,
Model with the great support of:
Andrew Southwood-Jones, Catherine Zhuang, Christen Meli, Alexander Kashin
animation by LAVA feat. time-lapse by Peter Murphy
Sustainability concept: Ross Harding from Advanced Environmental.
Two giant digital origami tigers playfully celebrate Chinese New Year on the forecourt of Customs House, Sydney from 11 February –14 March 2010. The crouching digital tigers combine ancient lantern making methods with cutting edge digital design and fabrication technology, bringing east and west together through tradition and innovation.
The big cats are a collaboration between multinational architectural practice Laboratory for Visionary Architecture (LAVA) and Customs House to mark the lunar year of the tiger and raise awareness about the endangered status of tigers. The tigers are inspired by “zhezhi”, a Chinese term for paper folding, more popularly known by its Japanese name “origami”. Traditional Chinese lantern makers in Sichuan province, where lantern making has been taking place for over 800 years and local artisans were consulted. The Chinese or Lunar New Year is the most important Chinese holiday and starts with a Lantern Festival. The Chinese lunar astrological sign is the metal tiger in 2010. The tigers are the size of a boat at 2.5 metres high and 7 metres long yet weigh only 200kgs and use fully recyclable materials, aluminium and barrisol, a new light weight reusable stretch material. Pulsating low energy LED lighting brings the sculptures to life. Chris Bosse, LAVA director says: “The project continues LAVA’s mission in lightweight structures to build MORE WITH LESS.”
“The tigers are part of an ongoing multidisciplinary program featuring contemporary architecture, installations, photography and digital media exhibitions in Customs House, ” said Jennifer Kwok, manager of Customs House.
Giant digital origami tigers 11 February – 14 March 2010 Customs House 1 Alfred Street, Circular Quay, Sydney, Australia
Laboratory for Visionary Architecture Asia Pacific Chris Bosse, Tobias Wallisser, Alexander Rieck Niklas Muehlich, Jarrod Lamshed, Erik Escalante, Esan Rahmani, Anh‐Dao Trinh, Jonas Epper, Stefan Bassing, Simon Wenzel, Isabel Fischer
www.l‐a‐v‐a.net
Sydney ‐ Stuttgart ‐ Abu Dhabi – Shanghai
Fabrication Sydney Stretch Ceilings Barissol, a new recyclable stretch material. www.barrisolsydney.com.au
Customs House Jennifer Kwok ‐ Manager and Producer Vicki Matin Jacqueline Singh www.sydneycustomshouse.com.au
What will the city of the future look like? Carbon-neutral,no waste,no cars a city that relies entirely on solar and other renewable energy sources. This is a visionary project that is now becoming reality. In the desert of Abu Dhabi urban planners,architects and researchers are building the world's first eco city: Masdar City. ARTS.21 went to take a look.
