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Project: head in | im kopf, Berlin/Germany
Second prize of Category "Shops/Showrooms/Exhibition stands"
The head in | im kopf exhibition was conceived by architects as a gallery in which they themselves are the exhibits. The centrepiece is a specially designed textile display sculpture, which is stretched across the entire space, and inside which the actual exhibition is staged. The visitor walks beneath this suspended sculpture and sticks his head through circular openings in the fabric envelope. Through this unusual and highly focused way of taking in the exhibits, the visitor is made acutely aware of the space. The exhibition features not only projects completed by this office, but also their work-in-progress - or in other words, the process of exploring and refining form. By putting his head through the fabric envelope the visitor enters the head of the architect, as it were, and is able to reconstruct and experience for himself the evolving design of the space.
The jury's verdict:
"The project impressed the jury with its remarkable conceptual continuity. Continuity in the sense of the spatial representation of the position from which the designers started. This tautological dimension is experienced by the observer through his physical senses, so that the exhibition leaves an enduring impression."
Website: www.magmaarchitecture.com
