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mæ has worked on a variety of exhibitions and innovative arts space projects. Here is a selection of our work in this sector.
In Spring 2005 mæ worked with design company Airside on the exhibition Knit 2 Together at the Crafts Council in London. The exhibition proved to be very popular achieving the highest visitor figures ever for the Council. Black walls and grey interlocking plinths ensure that the exhibits stand out from the dark walls. The furniture in the show is purposefully simple so as not to distract from the pieces of work. The plinths interlock in ways akin to knitted yarn thereby continuing the theme of the show. The structures were designed to be flat packed and were set up in other venues around the country as the show went on the road. Location: London South East Dance Studio
The dismountable studio will be a temporary, low cost dance studio which has high visual impact and design standards. With an expected life of 5 – 10 years, it will be low cost to run with insulation values being those of a permanent art space. This studio will have the flexibility to be dismantled and moved from location to location enabling a sustainable and flexible use of an arts space that can be positioned into the heart of communities. The dismantling and reassembling may take up to a week, and it is expected that during its life cycle the building will be moved twice. Location: Brighton Tribeca Reception Building
Our 'Infobox’ design starts to make Tribeca a place as it is being made. It is a marketing suite / a showroom / a civic space / a statement. When its job is done at Tribeca, Infobox and the garden street can be simply dismantled and moved to a new site. Infobox is designed to be a simple set of solid timber boxes, manufactured off site and stacked on top of each other. The boxes are glazed at both ends and are arrayed to give views back to Liverpool town centre, the river and over the Tribeca site. Floors are linked by three stair spaces, which break out of the boxes to form decks. The building is enclosed in a fretted stainless steel cowl with stainless rain screen cladding over the timber elements, reflecting Liverpool’s ever changing weather and light during the day and forming an illuminated beacon for Tribeca at night. All areas of Infobox are accessible by lift so that everyone can enjoy the view. London Festival of Architecture
mæ jointly curated an exhibition of the ‘Evolving Norms of British Housing’, as part of the London Festival of Architecture 2008. Co-curators were Matthew Lloyd of Matthew Lloyd Architects, Sam Price of Price & Myers, and urban designer Mandar Puranik. The subtitle to this exhibition was ‘a building should be to the city as a brick is to a brick wall’. The premise is that the best homes and communities arise from a regular, some might say ordinary, pattern of urban or sub-urban residential development based on a logical and disciplined scale, often laid out in traditional street patterns, with highly considered plans and functional elevations. The exhibition featured representative schemes from 16 British practices, and explored fresh models for contextual 21st century housing that built on lessons from the past. |
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