Structure studio Youssofzay + Hart has constructed a collection of interconnected rooms utilizing supplies present in {hardware} shops for a brief exhibition house in Australia that may be simply dismantled and tailored.
Titled No Present, the exhibition house was positioned within the heritage-listed previous Eveleigh Railway Workshops – now referred to as Carriageworks – and constructed utilizing a set of modular metal buildings lined in panels of acoustic felt.
Three rows of linked areas had been used to accommodate 11 artist-run initiatives throughout the Carriageworks corridor.
The modular metal body buildings had been designed to supply the intimacy of small rooms, whereas additionally referencing the economic nature of the exhibition’s setting. Supplies for the venture had been sourced from a neighborhood suburban ironmongery store.
Youssofzay + Hart’s design, which has been shortlisted within the exhibition design class of Dezeen Awards 2021, intends to spotlight and promote the reuse and repurposing of supplies.
Metal frames had been organised in a crisscrossing formation, with some clad in panels of acoustic felt that offered gray backdrops on which to show artworks.
The configuration, organisation and proportions of every of the short-term exhibition “rooms” had been knowledgeable by the venue’s present architectural components, together with the partitions, columns and doorways of the economic warehouse.
In locations, the acoustic felt panels had been cropped to border viewpoints and sightlines between totally different exhibition areas.
The felted panels additionally created flexibility for the short-term exhibition house, as every panel could possibly be simply moved to raised go well with the location of the exhibited artworks.
By utilizing supplies which can be available and will be sourced from native {hardware} shops, Youssofzay + Hart aimed to create an exhibition design that may be scaled, deconstructed, reconfigured and tailored to go well with the wants of various exhibitions and occasions.
The venture has been shortlisted within the exhibition design class of Dezeen Awards 2021. Different initiatives shortlisted within the class embrace Studio 10’s design for the Customary from Nature exhibition.
Pictures is by Zan Wimberley.
