Above
Location: Wien Museum
Principal use: exhibition
Year: 2016
Status: competition
Design team: Mark Neuner, Nikolaus Kastinger, Christian Höhl
Exhibition concept: The exhibition as a path and place
“A text collage” of Josef Frank’s “Das Haus als Weg und Platz”:
The modern exhibition originates from the Bohèmeatelier in the mansard roof.
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The whole fight for the modern exhibition basically aims for freeing people from their bourgeois prejudices and giving them the opportunity to live the bohemian way. The beautifully and neatly furnished exhibition in an old or new harmony is intended to become a nightmare vision of old times. A well-organized exhibition is planned like a city with streets and paths, that automatically lead to places that are cut off from traffic so that one can rest on them.
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It is very important that this path is mapped without any striking devices, without any decorative instruments, so that the visitor does not think that he is being led. A well-designed exhibition is like those old beautiful cities where even strangers immediately know their way and, without asking, find the town hall and the marketplace.
Room elements
Tower
As an example, I would like to highlight a very important element in the layout of the exhibition, the stairs. It has to be planned in a way, that one never has the feeling of going forth and back, one should always go further.
Bridge
The path that connects these individual spaces in the exhibition rooms has to vary in such a manner, that one never feels its length.
City wall
A well-organized exhibition is planned like a city with streets and paths, that automatically lead to places that are cut off from traffic so that one can rest on them.
Square
The center of the exhibition is the seat, the piazza of the exhibition. Every exhibition room has to have a center around which it is organized and that can characterize the room….In these times, where the center often is neglected, is planning floorplans more difficult because this center has to be created architecturally.
Labyrinth
…that is build by fortune, contains what we are desperately looking for in rationally equipped exhibitions: Life. … lots of corners, crooked walls, steps and level differences, columns and beams, – in short, all the diversity that we are looking for in the new building to avoid the desolate wasteland of the rectangular room.
Grid
…what we are desperately looking for in rationally equipped exhibitions: Life. … all the diversity that we are looking for in modern exhibitions to avoid the desolate wasteland of the rectangular exhibition room.
Ways of viewing
-how do you perceive the city from above?
Peep box
A peep box is a viewing device that allows a look inside itself and shows the viewer graphics with a deceptively real perspective. From the second half of the 18th century the peep box was a popular fairground attraction all over Europe. The peep box pictures with views of European points of interest but also exotic scenes and theatrical representations, shaped the image of the “wide world”. The peep box is therefore one of the first mass media.
Illusion of space
A sensory illusion caused by technical devices is often referred to as an illusion. Painters and draftsmen use certain visual representation methods (trompe l‘oeil) to create impressions of an unusual and surprising kind to achieve astonishment and wonders.
Magnifying glass
A magnifying glass, also called “burning glass”, is a simple convex converging lens with a small focal lengh with a mount and handle or a device for positioning. If an object is within the focal length a magnifying glass creates an upright virtual image of the object.
Telescope
A telescope is an optical instrument that makes distant objects appear many times closer to the viewer. This is achieved by increasing the viewing angle with the help of lenses. Prisms and mirrors can be used to straighten the image or to reduce the overall length of the telescope.
Panoramic image
Panoramic images are characterized by the fact that they cover a large viewing angle. A panorama image that covers 360 degrees is also known as a round image. Panoramas are often used to depict architecture and landscapes. In the course of time, various processes have emerged for the creation of panoramic images, for example circular paintings, panoramic photography and digital photography.
Projector
A video projector is a special projector that projects still and moving images from a visual output device for an audience in an enlarged form on a screen.
Drone
An unmanned aircraft is an aircraft that can be operated and navigated independently by a computer or from the ground via a remote control without a crew on board.
