ETH Zurich<br>gta exhibition space - Inside Outside

ETH Zurich

gta exhibition space

Wings

Place

: Zürich, Switzerland

Client

: ETH Zurich, Department of Architecture, Institute gta

Scope of work

: Exhibition space reconfiguration

Date

: 2016

For the renovated exhibition space of the ETH school of architecture, Inside Outside designed a series of 7 straightforward white curtains and 2 black PVC lacquer curtains on 5 tracks that reconfigure the exhibition space of the Institut für Geschichte und Theorie der Architektur (GTA).

Seemingly simple, yet delicately detailed the curtains perform as soft, yet strong walls. Curtains of the same length are removable and can shift tracks, thus enabling more flexibility and adapting to different curatorial concepts. The curtains are split in two parts and each has a half circle window on one side that, in the current configuration, emphasizes the view through the central axis of the space. The seven white and the two black curtains are designed as the background for all different exhibitions that will take place in the years to come.

With every new exhibition new trajectories and rooms can be defined and different perspectives and views between exhibits and visitors can be orchestrated by shifting the position of the windows and the slits and by shifting the order of the curtains color-wise or from a heavily pleated curtain to a straight one.

Team Inside Outside

: Petra Blaisse with Peter Niessen, Chantal Vos, Nafsika Efklidou

Photographs are ©Stefan Altenburger and ©Inside Outside

2016

Filed under

ongoing

exhibition

curtain