Extension Gallery is an experimental forum for testing new thought and practice in architecture. It is a platform for dialog between national and international practices and investigation of the relations between architecture and other disciplines. The gallery commissions architects that adopt a diverse set of architectural theories to design and construct site-specific installations that transform the gallery space with their work and allow visitors to explore and experience current architectural thought in practice.
Future Cities Lab: Vivisys
The Vivisys installation is an experimental double-curved lattice vault that plays host to an extraordinary cluster of rapidly prototyped aluminum and acrylic barnacles. Three-dimensional auroras of blue electron emitting cold cathode tubes respond to interactions from their environment. Vivisys synthesizes patterns of the organic and the manufactured into a new creative paradigm for energy, form and matter.
The exhibition was sponsored by Extension Gallery, Podmajersky, Inc., The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, The University of Virginia School of Architecture, Tektonics Design and Fabrication Group (Richmond, Virginia), and 3Form.
November 29th 2007 through January 13th 2008
http://www.future-cities-lab.net
