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LAVA: christmas windows for la rinascente


christmas windows at la rinascente by chris bosse
all images courtesy LAVA


chris bosse of laboratory for visionary architecture (LAVA) has created
a window installation for the famous italian department store la rinascente
for its vetrine di natale 2010 (christmas 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.
 
bosse, 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.
 
the store windows are at la rinascente's piazza duomo store, in the centre of milan.
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.

current trends in parametric modeling, digital fabrication and material-science were
applied to the space-filling installation.











ridhika db
11.24.10  
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I swear that I have seen this same project repeated at least 5 times.
Hannhs   11.24.10
with exactly the same repetitive geometry - this project explores conventional mass production, nothing organic here.

(it's a repetitive weary phelan, which tricks the eye. shoe boxes would be just as 'organic', and more higher recycling possibilities)
phew   11.24.10
Perhaps not the most innovative idea, copying natural structures and patterns, but, sculpturally still a nice effort. The lighting does help. It could do without the hot air blabla; then again it could also do without comments dismissing it right off.
Talking organics, I could actually argue here that nature is the mass producer pur sang; crystals, chorals, honeycombs and on a deeper level: cells, are repetitive elements.
Where it becomes interesting though is when natural growth allows every element to be distorted by external factors just a tat so no 2 are exactly the same. Now that would make an nice follow-up, in card-board...
Gerard   11.24.10
But what does it have to do with Christmas? That would be the real question here.
Playpunk   11.24.10
It seems repetitive because he has been doing it for years. As workshops with students and kids. So I think its great. Of course its nothing new - its geometry. Whats pretty funny is he probably got paid a bunch of money by lava and he had some people fold together about 20 dollars worth of cardboard. :)
polygon-porn   11.24.10
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