magma13 - Swiss-engineered ambient technology
ENGINEERED FOR COHERENCE
Every space carries information. Not metaphorically: light, air, materials, electromagnetic fields, the surfaces and structures around you are all doing something, continuously, whether anyone is measuring it or not. Some of it holds together. Some of it does not, and that is the part nobody has a name for.
Entropy at one end, coherence at the other. The question is never how much information a space carries. It is whether that information holds together.
magma13 is MGA-FCR engineered into a passive ambient technology, Swiss-engineered and patent-pending, developed by SOLS to raise the real and perceived quality of indoor spaces, and of outdoor spaces for the formats specified for them.
MGA-FCR is our framework, and it has two connected aspects. Modulated Geomagnetic Ambience: the model explaining how structured materials may interact passively with the natural geomagnetic field and the stimuli present in a given space. Functional Coherent Response: the principle we hypothesise underneath it. Phenomenological rather than demonstrated, it describes how functionalised carbon-mineral materials, structured at more than one scale, behave at extremely low intensity. The terms are ours. The framework behind them is currently under experimental validation.
Passive here means no external power supply, no electronics, no software and nothing to operate. magma13 itself introduces no artificial electromagnetic emissions, as documented by measurement. Where a product pairs it with a passive mains filter, that element connects to a line. magma13 adds no artificial emissions to a room: it works with what the room already carries.
magma13 is designed to contribute to an ambient quality perceived as more coherent, more balanced and more favourable to personal well-being within an environment. It is intended for spaces. Nothing to switch on, nothing to adjust, nothing to remember.
MGA-FCR works on the environment. What happens in that environment is what our research observes, and magma13 is not a medical device: it makes no diagnostic, therapeutic or physiological claims.
WHAT IT'S MADE OF
The housings are anodised aluminium, machined and finished, in a small range of colours.
Inside are two forms of the compound: magma13 Classic, and magma13 microspheres. Both are structured carbon-mineral materials. What they are made of is only part of it. The configuration is specified in geometry, in density and in how the different materials meet, and it is the subject of four pending patent applications.
There are no consumables and no cartridges. A textile cover, where one is used, needs occasional cleaning.
REGENERATIVE
Applied to the space, for personal well-being within an environment. It means the real and perceived quality of a room, its atmosphere, and whether it holds up as somewhere to spend time. A forest or a spring may be perceived as regenerative because of the balance among many factors rather than any single one. Contributing to that quality is what magma13 is engineered for.
ADAPTIVE
Passive does not mean inert. A tree draws no power and interacts with everything around it, all day. magma13 works the same way: it does not impose a setting on a room, it responds to the conditions already present, which differ between a stone house and a glass office. There is nothing to tune and nothing to configure.
COHERENT
Coherence, for SOLS, means environmental order and continuity. A room where the elements are working with each other rather than against each other. It is the property we design for, and the one our environmental measurements are built around.
NATURAL
We imitate nature, but not the way it looks. No sounds of water, no images of forests. What we study is how natural environments work: why a mountain valley or a stretch of old woodland holds together, what keeps so many elements in balance at once. Those mechanisms are what our technology is built on.
How it’s specified
Formats are specified by the space rather than sold as a single product
WHERE IT GOES
Homes and villas. Hotels, lounges and spas. Offices and meeting rooms. Wellness centres. Clinics and professional spaces, with no clinical claim attached. Restaurants. Gardens and public landscapes. It can also be integrated into materials and building systems where a project calls for it.
Some of these have pages of their own: Regenerative Space, Regenerative Office, Sleep Environment, Water.
BY SIZE
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Compact. By sizing convention, personal areas of roughly four metres across. A desk, a bedside, a study corner, a treatment chair.
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Room. Larger rooms and open-plan areas of up to roughly eight metres.
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Architectural. Spaces of between fifteen and twenty-five metres, including outdoor areas and transitional indoor-outdoor zones.
BY FUNCTION
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Ambient Coherence. magma13 structured materials, in the format that matches the space.
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Advanced Ambient Coherence. The same principle at a higher level of integration, from a single room to a whole property.
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Near-Field Ambient Comfort. A textile layer for the places people stay longest, under a mattress or at a workstation. Connects to an approved ground or ESD bonding point.
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Clean Power Integrity. A passive mains filter for the circuit, designed to attenuate selected high-frequency conducted disturbances on the connected line, within the limits of its passive filtering architecture and installation context. Once connected, it starts attenuating conducted disturbances on the line. Fixed installation by a qualified electrician is available where a project calls for permanence.
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Vital Elements. In-line water, fitted to an existing water line without altering the plumbing.
The passive formats need nothing built in: no power, no cabling, no controls, and units can be moved between rooms as easily as they went in.
WHAT WE MEASURE
On Regenerative Space and Premier projects the environment is assessed before anything is specified. A proprietary SOLS protocol and algorithm evaluate thirteen environmental parameters, measured with the following instrument set. It is not a health assessment.
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electrical-environment measurements, including body voltage and conducted disturbance
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clean power analysis, including mains noise and harmonic distortion
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stray current analysis on the earthing system
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grounding and earthing integrity
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radiated electromagnetic interference
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magnetic and electromagnetic field measurements
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site and subsoil conditions
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localised variations in the geomagnetic field
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indoor air quality: PM2.5, PM10, total suspended particulates, ozone and nitrogen oxides
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natural ionisation levels
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hyperspectral imaging
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entropy-of-information analysis
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water-related observations
Clean power and stray current analysis are both carried out with specialist software used by SOLS under exclusive licence, and interpreted using our own proprietary SOLS analysis method, so that any electrical or grounding solution is specified on the basis of the site as it actually is rather than on a standard assumption.
From these we build the SOLS Coherence Index, our own parameter for environmental coherence, based on entropy-of-information analysis and other measurements taken during the assessment.
WHAT IS MEASURED, WHAT IS OBSERVED, AND WHAT IS REPORTED
Measured, observed, reported. Three different things, and wellbeing environmental technology tends to run them together. We would rather separate them, because the distinction is the basis on which you should decide whether to take us seriously.
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Measured. Environmental and electrical parameters, on site, with instruments, before and after. Body voltage. Conducted disturbance. Clean power analysis. These are numbers, and they either move or they do not.
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Observed. Laboratory work under defined conditions. The core is a programme with INBB, from December 2020, on in vitro cellular models: human neural and glial cells, mesenchymal stem cells and dermal stem cell populations. It is the longest research SOLS has funded. Alongside it, between 2021 and 2022, magma13 products were observed at a research consortium in Bologna, against identical placebo products: variations in the entropy of information were detected in image sequences of objects. Laboratory observations are not a person in a room.
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Reported. What people say about a room after living or working in it matters to us. We have collected many of these over the years, sent to us unprompted, from private clients and from professionals who installed the technology in their own spaces. Calmer. More settled. Easier to be in. They are subjective impressions of a space, they vary from person to person, and we count them as exactly that.
magma13 is not a medical device. It is not intended to diagnose, prevent, treat or cure any disease and is intended solely for personal well-being within an environment. The technical information given here does not constitute therapeutic, preventive or diagnostic claims. Any experimental observations are preliminary and do not demonstrate medical or physiological benefits in humans. The technical characteristics of magma13 are subject to internal evaluation and do not imply biological or therapeutic effects. magma13 does not filter, purify or disinfect water and does not make water therapeutic or healthier. magma13 should not be used as a substitute for medical treatment, devices or procedures. Individual perceptions may vary.