BirdHouse Project, Presentation
Palazzo d’Orsini
Bomarzo, Italy, December 9, 2006

AV has presented the “BirdHouse” to the representatives of the Birdhouse Foundation coming from Japan.The event took place in the Palazzo d’Orsini in Bomarzo. The Maire Stefano Bonori hosted the event and gave an opening speech. Thereafter the representatives of the Birdhouse foundation Mr. Yoshino and Mrs. Takenaka presented the Birdhouse Foundation.
Following, Arturo Vittori and Andreas Vogler presented their design (Space architects create the Bird House), which was build up in the Palace. Supporting companies were present as well. These were Loris Granziera from G-Engineering (Udine), Ricardo and Marco Self from Self Group (Udine) and Renata Ferrua from sail maker Navigare (Porto Ercole).
Further companies involved are Artico (Pordenone), McNeel Europe (Barcelona) and many other individuals, who supported the project enthusiastically.

The event was honored by the presence and speech of astronaut Roberto Vittori. The presentation was closed with childrens presenting theirs views of the Bird House.

Later the BirdHouse was built up outside the Bomarzo AV office. It will be shipped to Japan early next year.

AV is participating at the 1st Infra-Free Life Symposium that will take place in Istanbul, December 11 to 15.

“Gravity architecture” refers to all the traditions, baggage, and preconceptions that have been accumulating for millennia in the field of architecture. With the paradigm shift toward information-based and digital production, we have an opportunity to expand toward an “anti-gravity architecture”.
This symposium seeks to integrate smart, technologically or biologically inspired, or other unconventional approaches to lead to aggressive improvements in the efficiency, versatility and safety of future architecture. The foundation of this multi-disciplinary project is research on smart materials and construction systems associated with micro-electronics, environment protection, sensing and real-time adaptation to system changes.