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Ethics/Aesthetics Exhibition design
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Athens, Greece
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Ethics/Aesthetics Exhibition design
Athens, Greece
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2011
SIZE
10,000 sqft - 25,000 sqft
BUDGET
$0 - 10K
Location: Benaki Museum Athens.
Surface area: 1.200 sqm.
Installation design of three exhibitions: ‘Ethics/Aesthetics’, ‘Slow Down Rooms’ and ‘Athens Here and Now’ within the exhibition series of ‘AAO: Ethics/Aesthetics’ with 32 exhibits.
Design principles of ‘AAO: Ethics/Aesthetics’:
1. Organizing the Benaki Museum groundfloor gallery into three spaces, one for each exhibition.
2. Creating a linear movement passing through the three exhibitions so as to allow visitors read the continuous thematic
narrative of the first (Ethics/Aesthetics), seeing related
experimental student work in the second (Athens Here and Now), and relaxing in the art environment of the third (Slow Down Rooms). Before exiting, the space was
designed for performance actions.
3. Presenting each exhibit in an autonomous unit with dimensions 2,5m (W) x 2,5m (D) X 2,5m (H). The unit’s fourth vertical wall leans on floor, creating the entrance and taking on it the information about it.
4. Each unit, while of standard
dimensions, presents variations so to allow the display of diverse types of exhibits: units without ceiling allow the display of objects, others with a ceiling form enclosed
cubicles and allow video projections, and others without
side walls allow installations being highlighted.
Challenges:
1. A low budget (30.000 Euros) and a quick assembling of the exhibition (5 working days). These challenges are met by the
decision to aim at a rough and rusty aesthetic quality, which
reflects the content and philosophy of the exhibitions, as well as to work with standardized parts and pieces.
2. The three exhibitions
include architecture, art and design works presented through
videos, installations, objects and print-out panels. This diversity presents the challenge of finding the way in which a single concept can unfold, and a unified experience be achieved, yet with a controlled degree of diversity between the three exhibitions. Therefore, main decision is to base the design on one strong element, the Unit, that unifies all the exhibits. Its variations allow a different experience in each exhibition, but also let the different types of exhibits be highlighted.
Architect: Lina Stergiou.
Collaborating architect: Aris Zambikos.
Project team architects: Evelina Rempi, Chrysi Gousiou, Antonis Chazapis.
Photos: Dimitris Giannoulakis.
Surface area: 1.200 sqm.
Installation design of three exhibitions: ‘Ethics/Aesthetics’, ‘Slow Down Rooms’ and ‘Athens Here and Now’ within the exhibition series of ‘AAO: Ethics/Aesthetics’ with 32 exhibits.
Design principles of ‘AAO: Ethics/Aesthetics’:
1. Organizing the Benaki Museum groundfloor gallery into three spaces, one for each exhibition.
2. Creating a linear movement passing through the three exhibitions so as to allow visitors read the continuous thematic
narrative of the first (Ethics/Aesthetics), seeing related
experimental student work in the second (Athens Here and Now), and relaxing in the art environment of the third (Slow Down Rooms). Before exiting, the space was
designed for performance actions.
3. Presenting each exhibit in an autonomous unit with dimensions 2,5m (W) x 2,5m (D) X 2,5m (H). The unit’s fourth vertical wall leans on floor, creating the entrance and taking on it the information about it.
4. Each unit, while of standard
dimensions, presents variations so to allow the display of diverse types of exhibits: units without ceiling allow the display of objects, others with a ceiling form enclosed
cubicles and allow video projections, and others without
side walls allow installations being highlighted.
Challenges:
1. A low budget (30.000 Euros) and a quick assembling of the exhibition (5 working days). These challenges are met by the
decision to aim at a rough and rusty aesthetic quality, which
reflects the content and philosophy of the exhibitions, as well as to work with standardized parts and pieces.
2. The three exhibitions
include architecture, art and design works presented through
videos, installations, objects and print-out panels. This diversity presents the challenge of finding the way in which a single concept can unfold, and a unified experience be achieved, yet with a controlled degree of diversity between the three exhibitions. Therefore, main decision is to base the design on one strong element, the Unit, that unifies all the exhibits. Its variations allow a different experience in each exhibition, but also let the different types of exhibits be highlighted.
Architect: Lina Stergiou.
Collaborating architect: Aris Zambikos.
Project team architects: Evelina Rempi, Chrysi Gousiou, Antonis Chazapis.
Photos: Dimitris Giannoulakis.
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