ASY_LAB

ASY_LAB

Experimental work at the intersection of architecture, art, and technology

Exhibitions

20
Installation view of The Architecture Machine exhibition at the Architekturmuseum der TUM — glass partitions, vintage Macintosh, and architectural drawings

The Architecture Machine

Architekturmuseum der TUM, Munich

2020
Frontal view inside the Audi E_Station tunnel with E-Tron vehicle and kinetic tubular elements illuminated at night

Audi E_Station

Kinetic Charging Station Installation

2019
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

Chiesa di San Lorenzo, Venice

2018
Atmospherics exhibition at Phillips de Pury & Company

Atmospherics

Phillips de Pury & Company, New York

2008
Habitas Installation in Madrid — an immersive corridor with a sculptural white display wall, embedded screens, wood paneling, and turquoise flooring

Habitas Installation

Immersive Multimedia Installation

2008
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

Venice, Italy

2008
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

Venice, Italy

2004
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

Kemi, Finland

2004
Approach the Future: The Asymptote Experience — installation view at the NAI, Rotterdam

Approach the Future: The Asymptote Experience

NAI — Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam

2003
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

Centre Pompidou, Paris

2003
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

Video Installation

2002
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

Immersive Video Installation

2002
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

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

2002
Stratascape at the ICA Philadelphia — biomorphic suspended forms glowing green and blue above a landscape of grey felt sculptural seating with visitors reclining

Stratascape

Philadelphia, PA

2001
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

Pneumatic Pavilion Installation

2000
FLUX 1.0 Installation — multimedia artifact with projected virtual buttons at CCAC Institute

FluxSpace 1.0

Interactive Video Installation

2000
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

Video Sketchbook

1999

B-Scape 1.0 OffsideOn

Immersive Video Installation

1999
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

Video Installation

1999
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

Düren, Germany

1996

Design

10
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

Treviso, Italy / New York

2020
Luminosita glass light sculpture by Asymptote for Venini — hand-blown Murano glass

Luminosita for Venini

Hand-Blown Murano Glass Light Sculpture

2019
IWC Mars I watch — two rendered views of the ceramic case with integrated bracelet and black dial

IWC Mars Edition

Schaffhausen, Switzerland

2018
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

3D-Printed Vase Collection for Materialise

2008
Mnemos 02 — square gold vermeil box with a molten droplet erupting from the lid surface, on black velvet

MNEMOS, Jewel and Collectable Boxes

Gold Vermeil Jewel Boxes

2008
The Ivo_03 table by Hani Rashid and Lise Anne Couture — slumped glass resting on an undulating base of etched Tula steel

Ivo Table

Glass and Steel Art Table

2007
The LQ Chandelier by Hani Rashid for Zumtobel — a cascading constellation of chrome-plated modular LED luminaires suspended in space

LQ Chandelier

Modular LED Chandelier for Zumtobel

2007
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

Sterling Silver Tea and Coffee Service

2007
The Alessi Desktop Architecture collection by Hani Rashid

Alessi Desktop Architecture

Desktop Objects Collection

2006
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

Modular Office Furniture System

1999

Virtual Environments

6
DMINTI Metaverse colorful portal atrium with immersive art spaces

DMINTI Metaverse

Virtual Museum and Art Metaverse

2022
IWC Schaffhausen virtual shipping container booth exterior

IWC Watches and Wonders Metaverse

Watches & Wonders, Geneva

2022
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

Interactive Virtual Product Configurator

2001
The Guggenheim.com homepage — a comprehensive virtual cultural platform with navigation across Visual Arts, Performing Arts, E-Commerce, Travel, and Education

Guggenheim.com

The Culture Network

2001
The Guggenheim Virtual Museum — a flowing, translucent digital form designed by Asymptote Architecture as the first virtual museum for the internet

Guggenheim Virtual Museum

The First Virtual Museum

1999
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

Virtual Trading Floor Environment

1997

Artworks

12
Hyperfine Splitting 008 — digital drawing study with vertical spatial transitions referencing Jakob's Ladder

Hyperfine Splitting 008

Meditations on Jakob's Ladder

2017
LQ Print — abstract drawing exploring the luminous crystalline geometry of the LQ Chandelier design

LQ Prints

Drawing Series

2010
Mantella Screening Sculpture — close-up rendering of the biomorphic fiberglass lattice with phosphorescent automotive finish

Mantella Screening Sculpture

New York / Paris

2008
Miele Suite drawing — architectural digital print with flowing curvilinear forms and luminous spatial volumes

Miele Suite Drawings

Architectural Drawing Series

2008
M_Scape sculpture — biomorphic fiberglass form with phosphorescent automotive finish

M_Scape Sculptures

New York, USA

2007
MediaScape drawing — dense spatial collage of algorithmic pattern fields exploring interference and oscillation

MediaScapes

Drawing Series

2004
M-Scapes drawing — digitally rendered sculptural surface study on blue field

M-Scapes Drawings

Drawing Series

2001
B-Scape drawing — composite digital study of the augmented body as interface between physical vulnerability and technological mediation

B-Scapes

Drawing and Imaging Studies

1999
I-Scape digital drawing — a manipulated entity of image collage, three-dimensional models, and texture maps forming an ambiguous landscape-object

I-Scapes

Digital Drawings

1999
Hyperfine Splitting 001 — black and white photographic collage combining darkroom manipulation and hand drawing on Ilford paper

Hyperfine Splitting 001

Photographic Collage Study

1994
Optigraph drawing — layered photographic composition with architectural elements, technical notations, and intersecting linear forms on a dark field

Optigraph 3: Berlin Readouts

Drawing Series

1990
Paris Optigraph — abstract photographic-digital composition with blurred motion and luminous color fields layered over Parisian urban fragments

Paris Optigraphs

Drawing Series

1990