LOVE architecture and urbanism

Handmade, bold, big, white, complex, strong, abstract, photogenic, artistic, decorative, interest- ing, symbolical 186 ceramic tubes forming a spherical sculpture – forming N186. To make a long story short: we LOVE to do the things we do and this one is our newest Love: N186

N186 was designed by LOVE architects, specially for the Venice Biennial Architecture exhibition “Time Space Existence”, approaching new boundaries outside of a classical architecture firm by working with new materials such as ceramic.
The seemingly crystalline object with a total diameter of 2700 millimeters was manufactured by Laufen in Gmunden, Austria by using SaphirKeramik - one of the latest, globally significant innova- tions used when a design includes very delicate, thin-walled shapes and tight radii, which in the past were generally realized using mineral casting, glass or enamelled steel.

With a simultaneous mix of fragility, stability, centrality, spectrality, and explosiveness that is de- termined by the play of light, the object combines various aspects of architectural creativity: con- cept, material, design, technology, and the precise realization thereof.

In the Venice exhibition “Time Space Existence” N186 will be overlaid with projected light by OchoReSotto that immerses it in a continuously changing sequence of new atmospheric levels of meaning. Striving to create a room of pleasant surrounding atmosphere, sound will be added.