The Glass Pavilion（玻璃馆）丨美国丨SANAA（东京）,Inside Outside

The Glass Pavilion

Toledo, USA

Place

: Toledo, USA

Client

: Toledo Museum of Art

Architect

: SANAA, Tokyo

Scope of work

: Space defining, acoustic and darkening curtains, sun & UV screening voiles

Date

: 2002 - 2005

Inside Outside’s scope of work included designing a festive space defining, darkening and acoustically absorbent curtain for the multi-purpose room, and a series of neutral climate and light-regulating and sun-reflective curtains for the rest of the building. We were also technical consultants for the textiles choices, in relation to light and climate requirements.

In first instance Inside Outside was asked to create a multi-purpose room curtain that would have a very imminent, colorful presence and would fulfill a representative role for the Glass Pavilion as an institution. In the second instance, the team discovered that many light and climate issues could be solved with flexible, thin textiles. We designed site-specific track configurations so that each curtain could appear and disappear in its own way, and proposed curtains of a very fine quality with minimal creative interventions that could be manipulated into different positions and pleat configurations to achieve gradations of shading. Our aim for the Toledo Glass Pavilion was to leave the transparency and sobriety of the architecture intact; everywhere except in the multipurpose room.

Team Inside Outside

: Petra Blaisse with Marieke van den Heuvel, Mathias Lehner, Peter Niessen

2005