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Remembering Chernobyl Exhibition - London Festival of Architecture 2016
Remembering Chernobyl Exhibition - London Festival of Architecture 2016
London, United Kingdom
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Remembering Chernobyl Exhibition - London Festival of Architecture 2016
London, United Kingdom
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2016
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0 sqft - 1000 sqft
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Remembering Chernobyl was a temporary exhibition by Spheron Architects, taking place during the London Festival of Architecture 2016 and marking the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986. The exhibition design was inspired by the heroic – and tragic – operation carried out by 10,000 Soviet coal miners following the reactor explosion. Visitors entered the exhibition through a pitch-black walkway, constructed from OSB boards against a typical suburban house in Woodside Park, north London. The 16-metre long passage created a tunnel approach that removed them from the bustle of London, and recreated something of the experience of the miners as they worked in dark, cramped conditions. The tunnel led to a one-room display that explained the design of the Belarusian Memorial Chapel –designed by Spheron Architects and under construction opposite the exhibition. The Chapel is a contemporary interpretation of traditional timber churches in Belarus, which was badly affected by Chernobyl. The exhibition explained how 25% of Belarus’s territory and 20% of its population were affected by the disaster. Photographs by Belarusian photographer Yuriy Mikhed showed abandoned communities, and images of one contaminated town where some residents chose to remain. Other drawings and displays of historic wooden churches in Belarus set the design of the new church its context. At the centre of the exhibition was a beautiful timber model of the new church, now completed and the first timber church to be built in London since the Great Fire in 1666. The exquisite model, lit from within, stands at the heart of an otherwise bleak exhibition as a ray of hope and an expression of faith by the Belarusian community in the face of disaster.
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