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The danger of digital creations is the virtual worlds they depend on, or rather the lack of constraints in the virtual if compared to the physical world. Most of the time digital creations end in just being crazy flythrough computer renderings. With the Digital origami LAVA wanted to realize concepts. LAVA studied and researched current trends in parametric modelling, digital fabrication and material-science and applied this knowledge to create a space-filling installation. The aim was to test the fitness of a particular module, copied from nature, to generate architectural space, with the assumption that the intelligence of the smallest unit dictates the intelligence of the overall system.

Digital Origami uses 3500 recycled and recyclable cardboard molecules in two different shapes. LAVA studio explored the intelligence of natural and architectural systems through the smallest elements of design. Ecosystems such as reefs act as a metaphor for an architecture where the individual components interact in symbiosis to create an environment.

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 sustainability depends on their intelligence. By itself this recognition is an ESD principle that in this instant simplifies the message and visualises it by creating

highly dimensional and sculptural appearance that plays with space by climbing up walls and arching over to create low, cave-like tunnels.

The seed for the projects is in essence an educative and thought provoking experiment, that aims to educate the valuable concept of intelligent, system based designs.

Using limited local sponsoring the collaborating students could archive a two week long exhibition that incorporated Computer controlled luminaries with sophisticated Light Systems and acoustic installations by local designer that brought the whole installation to life.

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Architect:
Chris Bosse and UTS masterclass,
LAVA – Laboratory for Visionary Architecture
Stuttgart, Germany & Sydney, Australia
www.l-a-v-a.net
Area: 120 sqm

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