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The project is an ephemeral construction for the atrium of the Benaki museum on the occasion of the annual Architecture Awards ceremony and the Open Architecture Lectures conference. A series of events organized by DOMa, an organization of contemporary architecture in Greece.
The design concerns a semi-permeable enclosed boundary that outlines the main event space while allowing the integration of equipment and organizing traffic around it.
The central idea is shaped by the intention to redefine the sense of the scale of the place in combination with the need to create a harmonious and intimate space.
Using the quality of semi-permeability the installation blurs the line between permanent and ephemeral, existing and new.
The construction consists of 60 identical metal mesh surfaces, 2.5 meters high, arranged in a circular arrangement. Elevated at a distance from the ground, visual contact is partially allowed further reducing the power and permanence of the limit.
The metal ring is supported by 20 columns with built-in tabletops that seem to float in space. The posts are adjustable to achieve surface flatness, while the construction logic serves both quick assembly/disassembly and space saving during storage.
