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LAVA (11 articles)

LAVA: berchtesgaden youth hostel - haus unter

architecture | 11.11.11
gone are the dreary dormitory rooms and impersonal spaces of your typical hostel. LAVA has reinterpreted the former typology embracing the market trends of lifestyle and personalization into communal space.

LAVA: digital origami emergency shelter

architecture | 09.01.11
a solution for replacement housing during natural disasters, this module's geometric appearance is intended to be stacked with other units generating an interconnected village.

LAVA: home of the future

architecture | 03.17.11
LAVA's home of the future acts as a metaphor for the questions of our times, our relationship with nature, with technology, and with ourselves with the intention of balancing human needs and nature's into one system.

LAVA: christmas windows for la rinascente

architecture | 11.24.10
an origami coral reef using 1500 recycled and recyclable cardboard molecules explores the intelligence of natural and architectural systems.

LAVA: re-loved

design | 08.05.10
australian architect chris bosse has sliced up the panton chair as part of the re-loved: designer stories exhibition at the powerhouse museum, sydney.

LAVA: tower skin

architecture | 02.09.10
is a transparent cocoon that acts as a high performance 'micro climate'. it generates energy with photo voltaic cells, collects rain water, improves day lighting and uses available convective energy to power the tow...

LAVA: crouching digital origami tigers

architecture | 01.21.10
to celebrate chinese new year in sydney, two giant digital origami tigers will be on display at the forecourt of the city's customs house, from mid february 2010.

LAVA: world's first sustainable city in UAE

architecture | 08.28.09
giant umbrellas, with a design based on the principles of sunflowers, will provide moveable shade in the day, store heat, then close and release the heat at night in the plaza of a new eco-city in the united arab e...

LAVA: sherman gallery art foundation library

architecture | 07.20.09
LAVA were commissioned by sherman contemporary art foundation, sydney to create a space within in the gallery for displaying catalogues and other publications.

LAVA: 'green void' installation

architecture | 12.23.08

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