Skizzenblatt Sendai Opera 2008 / 2009

3DIMENSIONAL LUXURY

Finding pictures in the clouds is one of the best exercises for both the eye and the soul. We allow ourselves to dream and transpose our own desires on the passing cloud formations, our vision simultaneously seeing and constructing. Space, both near and far, has always ignited the fantasies of artists and architects. They give form to our pipe dreams and bring them down to earth.

3deluxe also first turned to the sketchpad to visual its ideas for the Leonardo Glass Cube. The sketchpad is a collection of views of, in, and out of a glass building, which could just as well be the work of a genial glassblower. To build spaces they simulate natural growth processes, creating visible networks of communication. All the architectural elements are fluidly connected to one another without being playful; their organic forms make 3deluxe’s work unique.

The Leonardo Glass Cube construction brings together architecture, interior design, graphic design, and landscape design in a complex aesthetic unity. One fantasy is the Landstation, which perches like a gigantic white bird in a landscape crowned by a blue sky of cumulous clouds. This sketch could practically be a photograph; digital editing lends the drawing light and shadow, color and movement.

If Leonardo Glass Cube allows us essentially to be a part of the planning from the very beginning, Landstation seems an inexplicably beautiful object from the future. It could be built tomorrow, since even today's technology seems to put Utopia within our reach.

The interdisciplinary design group 3deluxe – a team of thirty creative minds headed by Dieter Brell, Peter Seipp, and Andreas and Stephan Lauhoff – counts among the most progressive delegates of the German design avant-garde. For over 15 years the internationally successful office out of Wiesbaden, Germany has given groundbreaking impulses to architecture, interior design, graphic and media design. 3deluxe garnered much acclaim in 2004 with its design for the Cocoon Club in Frankfurt. The noteworthy Corporate Architecture Leonardo Glass Cube was erected in Bad Driburg, Germany in 2007.