Monday, September 7, 2009
Friday, August 28, 2009
masdar plaza by lava animation
animation contains scenes by http://www.atelierillume.com.au/
and is edited by Kristof Gavrielides
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Tobias Wallisser Talk in Sydney
Tobias talked at the University of technology about parametric cathedrals in the age of digital design
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
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!
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!
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Thursday, July 2, 2009
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/
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
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 ..
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
LAVA designs MTV AWARDS
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 BOOK LAUNCHED AT KL DESIGN WEEK
LAVA BOOK LAUNCHED AT KL DESIGN WEEKThe 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/
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/
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Lava is featured in MARK magazine, the international arcitecture magazineMonday, October 6, 2008
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 |
| LAVA Europe Heilbronner Strasse 7 70191 Stuttgart |
| LAVA Asia Pacific 72 Campbell Street Surry Hills 2010 Sydney |
| directors@l-a-v-a.net |
Thursday, August 28, 2008
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