Two exhibitions were presented at the Melina Municipal Cultural
Center.
Firstly, the entries to the ANTHEMIAS S.A. - DOMES architectural competition,
the third competition organized by DOMES international architectural review in
collaboration with private stakeholders. Secondly, the exhibition ‘Home Stories: An Inside Look at
Single-Family Houses in Austria’ co-organised by the Austrian Embassy in Athens and
DOMES, in celebration of the latter’s second anniversary.The exhibition presented 28 recently built
single-family homes in Austria. Portraits of the people and families who live
in the
homes were presented in the show
alongside photographs and plans of the buildings.
The 12 entries of the Anthemias competition were
presented in four triangular in plan, backlight billboards made out of
polycarbonate sheets. The billboards were placed freely in the entrance of the
first exhibition space. The home stories exhibition was housed in a single,
rectangular, pitched roof structure made out of single sided plasterboard
sheets and studs inserted in space at an oblique angle in order to connect the
two linked exhibition spaces. Within the interior of the house, the portraits
of the house owners were displayed upon the walls, while each of the exhibited
houses was presented on an A1 poster stacked in copies for the visitors, on a
folding table. An oblong window framed a view across into the ‘forest’ of the
25 domes back issues.