The ground work at house metsälyhty [forest lantern] begun at the small town of Noormarkku, Finland. House metsälyhty is an economic one family wooden detached house, of approximately 130 square meters. It will sit near the timber line in forest bound neighborhood of Noormarkku.
More information and pictures of the sculpture by Lundén, Österlund & Wikar can be found at www.nilas.fi.
NILAs is a part of the ”Light-houses – on the Common Nordic Groud” exhibition at the Venize architectural biennale, in Italy from 29th of August to 25th of November. The press release from Museum of Finnish Architecture.
Picture by Markus Wikar.
The eCAADe 2012 was held this year at Czech Technical University at Prague, Faculty of Architecture at 12th – 14th of September. eCAADe, or the International Conference on Education and research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe was now held for the 30th time.
The theme of the conference this year was Digital Physicality | Physical Digitality. Henrika Pihlajaniemi and Toni Österlund were there representing t he Adaptive Urban Lighting research team. They presented a paper about the development of the LightStories, titled Tools for Interaction and User Participation in Urban Lighting: Lightstories Case.
Conference website can be found here.
The Light Houses: On the Common Nordic Ground exhibition at the Nordic Pavillion at the 2012 Venice architecture biennale displays sculptures from 32 Nordic architecture offices. Among the 11 offices from Finland, is the design collaboration Lundén, Österlund & Wikar with their NILAs sculpture. Lunden Österlund Wikar is a research collaborative focused on exploring the potentials of digital design and fabrication methods based in Helsinki and Tampere, Finland. The collaborative includes Eero Lunden (born 1982), Toni Österlund (born 1983) and Markus Wikar (born 1978).
The interview was presented at the Finnish broadcast company YLE’s news report 27th of October, 2012. Here is the written summary of that news (in finnish).
Here is the press release from the Museum of Finnish Architecture about the Light Houses exhibition, including links to the works.