Asy_Lab.

Experimental work beside the architectural practice. Installations, design objects, virtual environments, exhibitions, sculpture, and drawings.

Pinarello Virtual project page updating

Pinarello Virtual

2027 · TBD

DMINTI Virtual Museum colorful portal atrium with immersive art spaces

DMINTI

2022 · New York

IWC Schaffhausen virtual shipping container booth exterior

IWC Watches and Wonders Virtual

2022 · Geneva

The Pinarello × Hani Dogma F12 Limited Edition, iridescent color mapping across a carbon fiber racing frame inspired by the geology of the Dolomites

Pinarello × Hani

2020 · Treviso

Installation view of The Architecture Machine exhibition at the Architekturmuseum der TUM, glass partitions, vintage Macintosh, and architectural drawings

The Architecture Machine

2020 · Munich

Frontal view inside the Audi E_Station tunnel with E-Tron vehicle and kinetic tubular elements illuminated at night

Audi E_Station

2019 · Milan

Luminosita for Venini, stacked hand-blown Murano glass spheres with a ring detail, mounted on a brushed nickel disc base

Luminosita for Venini

2019 · Venice

IWC Mars I watch, two rendered views of the ceramic case with integrated bracelet and black dial

IWC Mars Edition

2018 · Schaffhausen

Rendering of the Oceanum Templum installation, a tall tessellated form rising through the nave of the Chiesa di San Lorenzo with visitors at its base

Oceanum Templum

2018 · Venice

Hyperfine Splitting 008, digital drawing study with vertical spatial transitions referencing Jakob's Ladder

Hyperfine Splitting 008

2017 · Karlsruhe

LQ Print, abstract drawing exploring the luminous crystalline geometry of the LQ Chandelier design

LQ Prints

2010 · New York

Atmospherics exhibition at Phillips de Pury & Company

Atmospherics

2008 · New York

Habitas Installation in Madrid, an immersive corridor with a sculptural white display wall, embedded screens, wood paneling, and turquoise flooring

Habitas Installation

2008 · Madrid

Mantella Screening Sculpture, close-up rendering of the biomorphic fiberglass lattice with phosphorescent automotive finish

Mantella Screening Sculpture

2008 · New York

The three MGX vases installed at Atmospherics, Phillips de Pury, Ubu, Roi, and Fugu in black epoxy with chromed nylon inserts, a white M-scape sculpture visible beyond

UBU · FUGU · ROI.MGX

2008 · Brussels

Miele Suite drawing, architectural digital print with flowing curvilinear forms and luminous spatial volumes

Miele Suite Drawings

2008 · New York

Mnemos 02, square gold vermeil box with a molten droplet erupting from the lid surface, on black velvet

MNEMOS, Jewel and Collectable Boxes

2008 · London

Prototyping the Future installation at the Venice Architecture Biennale, M-Scape sculptures in fiberglass behind illuminated glass panels in the Corderie dell'Arsenale

Prototyping The Future: Three Houses for the Subconscious

2008 · Venice

The Ivo_03 table by Hani Rashid and Lise Anne Couture, slumped glass resting on an undulating base of etched Tula steel

Ivo Table

2007 · New York

The LQ Chandelier by Hani Rashid for Zumtobel, a cascading constellation of chrome-plated modular LED luminaires suspended in space

LQ Chandelier

2007 · Dornbirn

M_Scape sculpture, biomorphic fiberglass form with phosphorescent automotive finish

M_Scape Sculptures

2007 · New York

Sterling silver tea and coffee service by Hani Rashid for Sawaya & Moroni, fluid, architecturally sculpted vessels on a faceted tray

Tea & Coffee Service for Sawaya & Moroni

2007 · Milan

Alessi Arc Wristwatch, the chronograph configuration on a black rubber strap, photographed on a white background

Alessi Arc Wristwatch

2006 · Crusinallo

The Alessi Desktop Architecture collection by Hani Rashid

Alessi Desktop Architecture

2006 · Crusinallo

MediaScape drawing, dense spatial collage of algorithmic pattern fields exploring interference and oscillation

MediaScapes

2004 · New York

Asymptote's exhibition design for Metamorph at the 9th Venice Architecture Biennale, sweeping white display surfaces winding through the historic columns of the Corderie dell'Arsenale, showcasing works by over 150 architects

Metamorph: 9th Venice Architecture Biennale

2004 · Venice

Absolute Zero, a monumental snow form rising to a sharp point against a vivid blue Arctic sky with the moon above, Kemi, Finland

Absolute Zero: A Light House of Temporality

2004 · Kemi

Approach the Future: The Asymptote Experience, installation view at the NAI, Rotterdam

Approach the Future: The Asymptote Experience

2003 · Rotterdam

Non Standard Architectures exhibition at Centre Pompidou, wide view of the gallery floor with Asymptote's suspended models, colorful platforms, and inflatable structures by participating architects

Non Standard Architectures

2003 · Paris

Flux 4.0: Ascape, sculptural forms cast from 1960s Cobra race car molds illuminated with projected computer-generated animations in DUMBO, Brooklyn

FluxSpace 4.0

2002 · New York

Panoramic view of Fluxspace 3.0, biomorphic armatures converging overhead with video projections of abstracted city skylines reflected in mirrored surfaces

FluxSpace 3.0 Documenta XI

2002 · Kassel

Moving Pictures exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, panoramic view of the Frank Lloyd Wright rotunda with artworks hung along the spiraling ramps

Moving Pictures

2002 · New York

The A3i interactive interface showing the Overhead Visor component in a 3D configurator with specifications, detail views, and navigation, a pioneering web-based tool designed by Asymptote Architecture

Knoll A3i Virtual Interface

2001 · New York

The Guggenheim.com homepage, a comprehensive virtual cultural platform with navigation across Visual Arts, Performing Arts, E-Commerce, Travel, and Education

Guggenheim.com

2001 · New York

Stratascape at the ICA Philadelphia, biomorphic suspended forms glowing green and blue above a landscape of grey felt sculptural seating with visitors reclining

Stratascape

2001 · Philadelphia

M-Scapes drawing, digitally rendered sculptural surface study on blue field

M-Scapes Drawings

2001 · New York

FLUX 1.0 Installation, multimedia artifact with projected virtual buttons at CCAC Institute

FluxSpace 1.0

2000 · San Francisco

The Flux Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale, a red inflatable pneumatic structure on steel legs set among the trees of the Giardini

FluxSpace 2.0

2000 · Venice

B-Scape drawing, composite digital study of the augmented body as interface between physical vulnerability and technological mediation

B-Scapes

1999 · New York

I-Scapes 1.0, Sony DV player enclosed in Plexiglas vitrine with Adicom infrared timing sensors, morphing video work by Asymptote Architecture

I-Scape 1.0 Multiple

1999 · New York

I-Scape digital drawing, a manipulated entity of image collage, three-dimensional models, and texture maps forming an ambiguous landscape-object

I-Scapes

1999 · New York

Interior view of a row of A3 workstations in grey showing the integrated desk with monitor, illuminated mobile storage cart, ergonomic chair, and overhead storage compartment

Knoll A3 Furniture System

1999 · New York

B-Scape 1.0 OffsideOn

B-Scape 1.0 OffsideOn

1999 · New York

FluxSpace 1.0 at TZ Art, translucent blue glass screens with projected digital imagery suspended in a New York loft gallery, glass floor plane reflecting the projections below

I-Scape 1.0

1999 · New York

The Guggenheim Virtual Museum, a flowing, translucent digital form designed by Asymptote Architecture as the first virtual museum for the internet

Guggenheim Virtual Museum

1999 · New York

Axonometric view of the NYSE Three Dimensional Trading Floor, a layered virtual environment showing trading posts, data streams, and real-time market visualization

NYSE Three Dimensional Trading Floor

1997 · New York

Asymptote's paper installation at the PaperArt Biennale, a faceted sculptural form suspended in a gallery at the Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, Düren, with projected light cascading across its folded surfaces

Writing Space

1996 · Düren

Hyperfine Splitting 001, black and white photographic collage combining darkroom manipulation and hand drawing on Ilford paper

Hyperfine Splitting 001

1994 · New York

Optigraph drawing, layered photographic composition with architectural elements, technical notations, and intersecting linear forms on a dark field

Optigraph 3: Berlin Readouts

1990 · New York

Paris Optigraph, abstract photographic-digital composition with blurred motion and luminous color fields layered over Parisian urban fragments

Paris Optigraphs

1990 · Paris