Lab
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

Person wearing a virtual reality headset at a desk in an office.
Sketch of geodesic dome greenhouse on a grassy field.

Related projects:

Taiyuan Botanical Garden – Greenhouse

Indoor tropical conservatory with an arched wooden lattice roof, lush palm trees, and visitors walking along a raised walkway.
Three 3D dome frameworks with planarity analyses of facade panels for tropical, desert, and aquatic domes.

Overview
Panel planarisation

Six dome-shaped wireframe diagrams showing pretension and normal forces in cables for tropical, desert, and aquatic domes.

Pretension of cables

Six wireframe geodesic domes with green reaction-force vectors at supports, showing tropical, desert, and aquatic domes.

Reaction forces

Wooden lattice geodesic dome resting on a white circular base, shown in a low three-quarter view.
3D rendering of a circular stadium with a geodesic lattice dome over the seating area.

Bollinger+Grohmann
Taiyuan Botanical Garden Greenhouse

Abstract line drawing of intersecting angular beams forming a tilted, tangled structure on a white background.

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.

White geometric wireframe architectural model perched on a rocky brown surface against a gray backdrop.

Model
Modellart
Michael Eisenkölbl

Geometric white wireframe lantern sculpture on a wooden surface with crumpled brown paper around
Futuristic glass-and-metal pavilion built into a rock outcrop in a desert, with greenery; camels nearby.
Futuristic glass-and-steel house on a lake, with a triangulated metal-frame roof; surrounding trees and greenery, interior living area visible.
Palm trees standing on a sandy beach with distant hills in the background.
Abstract metal arches rise among bare trees in an outdoor park.

Related projects:

Taiyuan Zoo New Areas - Voliere

Construction site with tall looping curved steel frames; crane lifts a beam as workers stand on dirt ground.
Engineering blueprint of a tall column assembly with a curved upper joint and base footing, shown from side and front elevations.

© Bollinger + Grohmann Ingenieure
Schematic Design

Taiyuan Zoo Entrance Building

Abstract line drawing of an airplane with a broad wing resting on a flat surface.
Intricate steel framework with rows of rectangular banners hanging overhead under a glass canopy.
Copper-colored perforated metal grid sculpture with two overlapping diagonally oriented panels against a blue sky.
Illuminated triangular wireframe plane with vertical orange light bars against a dark blue background.
Two software screenshots: a 3D curved mesh in a modeling app and a node-based diagram with colored blocks, set against a red lattice background.

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