Past: Sensing Space Exhibition - Architecture Reimagined

What: 
Sensing Spaces  Exhibition - Architecture Reimagined

Where: 
Royal Academy of Arts
Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BD

When: 
25' Jan - 6' April 2014

At the beginning of 2014, London was graced with this amazing exhibition that took place for 4 months. The exhibition was designed as an exploration of the functional and experimental aspects of architecture,collated of 7 world leading contemporary practices:

• Grafton Architects ( Ireland)
• Kengo Kuma ( Japan)
• Diebedo Francis Kere (Burkina Faso - West Africa  and Berlin)
• Lixiaodong (China)
• Pezo Von Ellrichshausen (Chile)
• Alvaro Siza and Eduardo Sauto de Moura ( Portugal)

All the architects were sharing the Beaux-Art Gallery in order to explore the way in which we sense space around us via participation and interaction. Each intervention takes the principles of either Space,Form or Light and Materials to transform the classically detailed interior of the gallery. The interventions vary in approach to spacial arrangement,some use illuminosity while others use framing and masking to amplify the experience through the gallery. 

Interestingly the transitional threshold from entrance to intervention in themselves added extra dimension  to the idea of sensing space.

F.B.A Favourite

Diebedo Francis Kere

Usually working with communities that experience hardship, he believes that architecture has the potential to genuinely inspire change. As a results he aims to create comfy spaces for formal gatherings to help communities to build their own inspirations.

Highlighted Interest:

Its a curvaceous wine glass shape that links two galleries and funnels people into an inter mate cave.

Built from 60MM  thick honeycomb plastic panels that were made in Germany , usually the panels are hidden between doors and walls.

The use of coloured straws through the honeycomb structure indicate a change in times.

"When you change a building, you become a part of its creation"