The Dimmuborgir site near Mývatn Lake and Hverfjall volcano takes its name from the Icelandic word for Dark Castles or Dark Cities, and was formed some 2,300 years ago by a massive eruption that created the unique features and bleak landscape. As lava flowed across the marshland, the water boiled and vapour began to rise through the lava.
An image of spacetime Volcanic form of foam-like structure that we study here in this design is a spatial preservation of the natural forces, a frozen image of an violent event. We took that particular spacetime and we have remodel it into a Black Lava Fields Visitor Center structure. When the Universe cools, the foam structure tempers and does not disappear.
Inside the Pumice Those foam-like structures, no matter what scale, preserves dynamic and constantly changing materiality. The specific pattern preserves dynamic characteristics of the substance it was made of at this one particular moment in time. The lava have met the water and in instance inflated the bubble of space, as an effect of rapid evaporation.
Texture Scaled pumice texture and rock foam-like structures have their abstract imprint in spatial distribution, function relationships, elevation textures and building structure itself. Materials chosen are concrete, metal, timber and glass, to match roughness and simplicity of Icelandic landscape
Space and Time foam-like structures are created by one of the basic natural spatial rules everywhere in our natural environment. This distribution of open vs enclosed space, forming soft curvatures of structures around bubbles of empty space can be found on a micro level corals, pumice, foam, sponge and even our bones, but also on a bigger structures and pattern formations level such as animal skin and fur patterns and the universe itself with its clusters of galaxies.
