Description & Credits

Habitare 96

Young Designers´competition finalists´pavillion design 1995, an exhibition of prototypes by eight competition finalists´at the Finnish Fair Centre in Helsinki

The spatial experience of the pavillion is to exit the quotidian into the extraordinary via innovative deployment of familiar materials issuing manifold visual effects. An obliquely suspended black oceanoid buoyantly marks the entry to the exhibition and organises the circulation in the space. The thinness of the oceanoid emphasises 2D surface over volume. Sheathed with thin plastic and constructed of an aluminium frame, oceanic effects are triggered by the interaction of mechanical ventilation and lighting on the surface of the oceanoid. Visitors enter the exhibition space under the oceanoid. Surfaces of the exhibition space are covered with aluminium foil. Reflections and diffusions of light render the perception of actual shape and size indefinite. An ambient submarinespace heightens the opacity of the prototypes.

CREDITS

Principal Architects

Kivi Sotamaa & Markus Holmsten

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