Digital Origami / LAVA

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LAVA has shared with us their current window installation, Digital Origami a product of parametric modeling experiments and digital fabrication methods. Additional images of this sculptural work, a brief video and a description from LAVA after the break.

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Chris Bosse of Laboratory for Visionary Architecture [LAVA] has created a window installation for the famous Italian department store la Rinascente for its Contemporary Christmas Art windows.

LAVA’s window installation is an origami coral reef using 1500 recycled and recyclable cardboard molecules that explores the intelligence of natural and architectural systems. The sculpture plays with space by climbing up walls and arching over to create coral caves. Based on the geometrical structures of sea foam and corals, the colourful reef comes to life through dynamic lighting and sound.
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Bosse, director of multinational LAVA, is one of seven designers from around the world to be commissioned to create a window – others are Kirsten Hassenfeld, Gyngy Laky, Andrea Mastrovito, Satsuki Oishi, Richard Sweeney, Margherita Marchioni and Tjep.

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The store windows are at la Rinascente’s Piazza Duomo store, in the centre of , design capital of the world. This is the first time la Rinascente have commissioned artists to do Christmas windows. The installation shows how a particular module, copied from nature, can generate architectural space, and how the intelligence of the smallest unit dictates the intelligence of the overall system. Ecosystems such as coral reefs act as a metaphor for an architecture where the individual components interact in symbiosis to create an environment.

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Bosse says: “In urban terms, the smallest homes, the spaces they create, the energy they use, the heat and moisture they absorb, multiply into a bigger organisational system, whose sustainabilty depends on their intelligence”. Current trends in parametric modeling, digital fabrication and material-science were applied to the space-filling installation.

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afreund says:

Really cool project! Love the execution and craft! The only thing that bewilders me is what this has to do with Christmas…

 
# December 7, 2010 at 16:26
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Would be very interesting see same of dwawings indeed…

 
# December 7, 2010 at 17:34
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jeff says:

come on LAVA, do you know Aranda/Lasch s grotto project.
They did it in 2005. http://www.flickr.com/photos/arandalasch/sets/72157612499078952/

 
# December 8, 2010 at 11:00
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dfg says:

this is great !
weaire phelan foam structure from watercube re interpreted.
was first done in 2005 by chris bosse with his masterclass at UTS

 
# December 8, 2010 at 22:56
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very interesting,nice to see this

 
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