~Speculative
2018 -
2018 -
LAVAFORMING
Lavaforming is Iceland´s Pavilion for the 19th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia 2025
What if structures emerge straight from the earth's crust and if the buildings of the future are created from the materials that are available, transformed by the energy and resources that can be found in their immediate environment? How do the most natural structures on Earth look like? Lavaforming is a story of a future society that has managed to harness lava flow and found ways to use it as a building material. During the time of Snorri Sturluson, when Reykjanes last erupted, a volcanic eruption must have been an otherwordly event. In our story, placed in 2150, we have harnessed the lava flow, just as we did with steam power 200 years earlier in Iceland. We look back at history for events that influenced development, but the goal with our story is to show that architecture can be the force that rethinks and shapes a new future. A lava flow can contain enough building material for the foundations of an entire city to rise in a matter of weeks without harmful mining and non-renewable energy generation. Lavaforming casts a light on how a local threat is transformed into a resource that addresses a global emergency.
~Exhibition
2022
2022
SUBSURFACE/CONVECTION
Exhibition during Design March 2022 in Reykjavík, Iceland.
The project SUBSURFACE - CONVECTION brings together two projects related to the ecosystem of lava on both micro and macro scale. Lavaforming is the architecture of a technologically advanced society that has abandoned profit maximization and is therefore free to explore solutions to the building material crisis of the world.
Grugg og Makk's project deals with microorganisms that are mostly hidden from our view, although all-encompassing. They play a key role in the earth's ecosystems and thrive in the most unlikely of places in some of the most difficult conditions that exist. Lava flow has shaped the landscape for billions of years, but in human times lava has been a destructive force. Microorganisms are the first to colonize new lava and lay the foundation for a new ecosystem, but in this project humans also participate in its formation.
Collaboration with Grugg & Makk
The project SUBSURFACE - CONVECTION brings together two projects related to the ecosystem of lava on both micro and macro scale. Lavaforming is the architecture of a technologically advanced society that has abandoned profit maximization and is therefore free to explore solutions to the building material crisis of the world.
Grugg og Makk's project deals with microorganisms that are mostly hidden from our view, although all-encompassing. They play a key role in the earth's ecosystems and thrive in the most unlikely of places in some of the most difficult conditions that exist. Lava flow has shaped the landscape for billions of years, but in human times lava has been a destructive force. Microorganisms are the first to colonize new lava and lay the foundation for a new ecosystem, but in this project humans also participate in its formation.
Collaboration with Grugg & Makk
~Exhibition
2021
2021
EIDER AND THE APOCALYPSE
Group exhibition at the Nordic House in Reykjavík, Iceland
Eider and farmer -A symbiotic relationship
A multi-disciplinary traveling exhibition about a symbiotic relationship between eider and humans.
Project name: Eider and the Apocalypse
A video piece created with AI
Collaboration with Sam Rees
Curators:
Hildur Steinþórsdóttir & Rúna Thor
Eider and farmer -A symbiotic relationship
A multi-disciplinary traveling exhibition about a symbiotic relationship between eider and humans.
Project name: Eider and the Apocalypse
A video piece created with AI
Collaboration with Sam Rees
Curators:
Hildur Steinþórsdóttir & Rúna Thor
~Writing
2019
2019
MÆNA MAGAZINE
Speculative writing based on ideas for local building materials in Iceland.
Mæna a magazine about design and architecture published by the Design and Architecture Department of the Iceland Academy of the Arts.
What if constructions would spring from geological layers or emerge as an effect of the weather in the area where they are located? What if the buildings of the future would be made exclusively from local materials, transformed by virtue of the forces and resources in the immediate environment? What would the most natural constructions on Earth look like, without any harmful mining and unsustainable power production?
