Flying Panels exhibition charts the evolution of prefabricated concrete-panel development
ArkDes has mounted an exhibition celebrating the function of concrete panels in modern structure, with an exhibition design by Observe Design Studio that evokes the dynamism of a development website.
The exhibition titled Flying Panels – How Concrete Panels Modified the World, appears to be like on the historical past of prefabricated concrete structure and the influence it has had on trendy city environments.
The present relies on analysis performed by Chilean curators Pedro Ignacio Alonso and Hugo Palmarola, who spent years inspecting the evolution of concrete panel methods and their various makes use of all over the world.
It’s being offered at a time when some architects are calling for the trade to desert concrete development altogether, as the fabric is taken into account a significant contributor to local weather change.
In line with ArkDes, “Flying Panels tells of the time when a concrete panel hovering throughout the sky symbolised the longer term and embodied desires of a greater world”.
The organisers urged that, though the concrete panel is now “a constructing part typically derided because the ugly face of our cities”, it was seen positively within the post-war interval as a possible answer to the present housing scarcity.
The present presents imagery and artefacts that give a way of the optimism surrounding the early examples of prefabricated concrete development, when builders and native municipalities offered visions for entire new neighbourhoods to be constructed utilizing this rising technique.
Posters, movies, toys and cartoons from the 1950s and 1960s exhibit how the flying panels have been depicted and perceived in fashionable tradition on the time.
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Since then, prefabricated panels have been central to the worldwide development for urbanisation, with concrete making it simpler to rapidly assemble inexpensive housing that may adapt to native wants.
Sixty examples of modular building-systems from all over the world characteristic within the exhibition, which is organised round a suspended 1:5-scale mannequin of a typical concrete panel system.
Stockholm-based Observe Design Studio was accountable for the exhibition design, which goals to encapsulate the acquainted really feel of a development website and, due to this fact, enchantment to each architects and a extra normal viewers.
“We need to seize that utopian momentum the place the whole lot appears attainable and the air is stuffed with pleasure and anticipation for the longer term,” mentioned Daniel Heckscher, a accomplice and inside architect on the studio.
“For us, that second in time is represented by the development website,” he continued. “It is a spot the place you search for, change your regular perspective, and let your self dream for some time.”
Alongside the size fashions, the scenography contains plinths resembling constructing supplies stacked on the bottom, and wall panels that enclose the area like fencing surrounding a development website.
Latest concrete improvements embody a proposal for quickly constructing refugee shelters utilizing a concrete textile mixed with water, and a robotic-fabrication system that might be used to erect extra sustainable high-rise buildings.
Flying Panels – How Concrete Panels Change the World is on present at ArkDes, Stockholm till 1 March 2020.