LAVA (Laboratory for Visionary Architecture) was founded in 2007. Directors, Chris Bosse, Tobias Wallisser a nd Alexander Rieck, have designed the city centre plan for the CO²-neutral Masdar City, the Michael Schumacher Tower in Abu Dhabi, Future -Hotel-Prototype in Duisburg and a new university master plan in Saudi Arabia. LAVA explores frontiers that merge future technologies with the patterns of organisation found in nature and believes this will result in a smarter, friendlier, more socially and environmentally responsible future. LAVA combines digital workflow, nature’s structural principles and the late st digital fabrication technologies with the aim of achieving MORE WITH LESS: more (architecture) with less (material/ energy/time/cost).