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A pool of LAB projects improves the presentation, execution and understanding of the work of DMAA. LAB organizes, presents and documents to uplevel our architectural (DMAA) as well as industrial design projects (DMID).

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The DMAA LAB for Research and Development currently consists of ten individual labs which are broken down into the following categories:

GRAPHICS
MODELLING
VISUALIZATION
MATERIALS
CODES
DESIGN
TECHNOLOGY
DMAA ANALYTICS
DMAA DATA
SUSTAINABILITY

The office structure is designed to ensure the clear allocation of responsibilities, quality and efficiency of all work processes. The LAB stores the wealth of existing and newly acquired experience and spreads it within the team.

It’s organization also allows for collaboration with external experts who broaden the practical and theoretical knowledge of our team.

LABs ensure the office’s time and content for research and development. In addition to original research and development of LAB subjects, regularly held presentations contribute to strengthen internal communication.

Research fields in Communication, Implementation, Analyzation

GRAPHICS
latest diagram language and 3D representation to communicate visually

MODELLING
3D models of the physical model and combination of abstract art and architecture

VISUALIZATION
learning latest rendering tools and implementation of AI and VR

MATERIALS
sharing new trends and technological improvements of building material

CODES
exchange of coding tools and text codes

DESIGN
parametrics of generative design to optimize construction

TECHNOLOGY
flexible workflows, using BIM data for design optimization

DMAA ANALYTICS
analysing projects, discussing theories and tendencies

DMAA DATA
structuring and cleaning up archive for detailed documentation

SUSTAINABILITY
evaluation of projects and creating unseen solutions

Related projects:

Taiyuan Botanical Garden – Greenhouse

Overview
Panel planarisation

Pretension of cables

Reaction forces

338 dmaa bg Tropic Dome Timber Axon 2017

338 dmaa bg Tropic Dome Timber Axon 2017 concrete

Bollinger+Grohmann
Taiyuan Botanical Garden Greenhouse

Related projects:

H.O.M.E House 2021

The approach to the house, which is cut into the landscape, shapes the pedestrian access and leads visitors straight into the central living area, from where stairs lead to lower-lying bedroom, bathroom and ancillary spaces. This central living space opens generously onto an intermediate area within the transparent membrane roof construction, which sits upon a massive and topographically differentiated base and contains a pool, a further bedroom and bathroom area, and living spaces. These zones can be accessed via two stairs that form part of the house’s own natural landscape. The boundary between inside and out, which, throughout the history of architecture, has often played a clear and orchestrated role, becomes the hybrid zone of a flexibly usable environment, in which furniture, space and nature merge together in line with a broader understanding of the interior and contribute to a highly dynamic, complex residential atmosphere.

The principle that underpins the design seeks to optimally reinforce the spatial relationships and those between “house and garden”. This principle can also be transferred to other projects such as subsidised housing and is a good example of the way in which architecture can offer more than a mere preoccupation with space and form. The relationship between nature and architecture is currently being renegotiated. Our house makes a concrete contribution to this process.