Terms like roof, wall and eaves, gave way to expressions found in nature - fins, icing, river lines and feathers. The shadow lines flow continuously nearly 60 feet from the top of the parapet, down the roof, finally cascading to the bottom of the front wall in one single flow, more than 300 unique custom-cut pieces. The architectural team digitally scripted a "rule set", allowing them to freely adjust hundreds of individual pieces into a self-organizing form.Īs a tailor crafts a suit of clothing, the aluminum skin was digitally rolled and unrolled, then cut by a CNC machine and finally attached to a complex metal substructure made of straight lines, leaving a space between the white aluminum panels of exactly 1 ¾”. The design-build of this rippling rain-screen required parametric aircraft design software, including Rhino's Grasshopper. White aluminum blends with cloud and sky. The lines draw the eye, and the eye follows, the lines direct our vision and our experience. The house and its forms collaborate with nature, with light. Shadows and light change with time of day and year. Lines between roof and walls are blurred first and second stories connect organically. This universe is made of waves and particles. The design brief was to create a work of art for living a home as inspiring as the natural world around us, with a program exquisitely crafted to facilitate the life of a modern family. The Wave House, and each of its design elements, is as unique as nature itself. There are no two snowflakes, or patterns of zebra or giraffe that are the same. Other notable projects are Roadmap 2050, a plan for a Europe-wide renewable energy grid Project Japan, a 720-page book on the Metabolism architecture movement (Taschen, 2010) and the educational program of Strelka Institute in Moscow.A lyrical organic structure inspired by the patterns of nature, the Wave House in Venice Beach is a residence as a work of art. AMO, with Harvard University, was responsible for the research and curation of the 14th Venice Architecture Biennale and its publication Elements. Guggenheim Museum in New York exhibitions at the Venice Architecture Biennale, including Public Works (2012), Cronocaos (2010), and The Gulf (2006) and for Fondazione Prada, including When Attitudes Become Form (2012) and Serial and Portable Classics (2015). It has produced Countryside: The Future, a research exhibited at Solomon R. In 2004, AMO was commissioned by the European Union to study its visual communication, and designed a colored "barcode" flag, combining the flags of all member states, which was used during the Austrian presidency of the EU.ĪMO has worked with Universal Studios, Amsterdam's Schiphol airport, Heineken, Ikea, Condé Nast, Harvard University and the Hermitage. This is the case with Prada: AMO's research into identity, in-store technology, and new possibilities of content-production in fashion helped generate OMA's architectural designs for new Prada epicenter stores in New York and Los Angeles. Earlier buildings include Fondazione Prada in Milan (2018), Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow (2015), De Rotterdam (2013), CCTV Headquarters in Beijing (2012), Casa da Música in Porto (2005), and the Seattle Central Library (2004).ĪMO often works in parallel with OMA's clients to fertilize architecture with intelligence from this array of disciplines. OMA’s completed projects include Taipei Performing Arts Centre (2022), Audrey Irmas Pavilion in Los Angeles (2022), Norra Tornen in Stockholm (2020), Axel Springer Campus in Berlin (2020), MEETT Toulouse Exhibition and Convention Centre (2020), Galleria in Gwanggyo (2020), WA Museum Boola Bardip (2020), nhow RAI Hotel in Amsterdam (2020), a new building for Brighton College (2020), and Potato Head Studios in Bali (2020). OMA-designed buildings currently under construction are the renovation of Kaufhaus des Westens (KaDeWe) in Berlin, Factory International in Manchester, Hangzhou Prism, POST Houston, the CMG Times Center in Shenzhen and the Simone Veil Bridge in Bordeaux. OMA is led by eight partners – Rem Koolhaas, Reinier de Graaf, Ellen van Loon, Shohei Shigematsu, Iyad Alsaka, Chris van Duijn, Jason Long, and Managing Partner-Architect David Gianotten – and maintains offices in Rotterdam, New York, Hong Kong, Doha, and Australia.
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