Global Design New York University: SPOTLIGHT: Laboratory for Visionary Architecture (LAVA)

Monday, January 20, 2014

SPOTLIGHT: Laboratory for Visionary Architecture (LAVA) | MASDAR CITY CENTRE

LAVA was founded by Chris Bosse, Tobias Wallisser and Alexander Rieck in 2007. It is a network of creative minds with a research and design focus. LAVA is a GLOBAL company, having offices in Sydney, Shanghai, Stuttgart and Abu Dhabi.

"LAVA’s winning design for the city centre of Masdar, the world’s first eco city, includes a plaza, five-star hotel, a convention centre, entertainment complex and retail facilities. The entire area is designed as one continuous, spatial, interactive environment - a ‘loop’. The “Oasis of the Future”, a mediated outdoor space, is an open spatial experience, with solar-powered sunflower umbrellas."

LAVA believes "the future wellbeing of cities around the globe depends on mankind’s ability to develop and integrate sustainable technology."

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http://www.l-a-v-a.net/about-lava/ || http://www.l-a-v-a.net/projects/masdar-city-centre/

"LAVA." Masdar City Centre. LAVA, n.d. Web. 16 Jan. 2014.

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MISSION

Global warming effects pose new challenges to the architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design communities. The immediate response has been a turn toward a host of energy-saving technologies. What has rarely been addressed, however, is the problem of scale. How can the designer make sure that global solutions do not come at the expense of local traditions, cultures, and environments? By placing human rational, emotional, technological, and social needs at the center of our environmental concerns, we propose a new GLOBAL [Global Local Open Border Architecture and Landscape] design initiative.

We seek a Global yet still Local design that can Open the sociopolitical Borders that all too often separate Architecture from its Landscape. The overreaching aim is to develop a language of design that can create proximity between individual responsibility and the current global environmental crisis. We see environmental problems as a crisis of human alienation from the natural world, and our initiative will explore ways in which design can reformat the unfortunate separation. In our plea for proximity between the individual and the global we will explore, in the words of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, a design that is "as close to the beyond as to things near" when we evoke "our power to imagine ourselves elsewhere."