Architecture Culture 202 Exhibition Booth: Barcelona Pavilion
Ahh, finally, it’s the day of exhibition for Architecture and Culture 202 (I mean yesterday, sorry for posting this late due to busy day despite this assignment is completed)…it is a group work which each group selects a building and showcases how that particular building reflects modernism in the exhibition booth.
At first, the exhibition is planned to be at the gallery at plaza, which is at second level. After considering difficulties of moving booth into that area, the location had changed to the courtyard. For my group, we had selected Barcelona Pavilion, a great masterpiece by Mies van der Rohe and we had spent around two weeks on setting up the booth for the building.
It has been really hard works and effort put on this booth, which costs us around RM4000, wow…that is too much, and crazy, right?! Yes! Indeed….we didn’t expect that the budget used is so unbearable, and now we are like in state of bankruptcy. Thanks to all the reflective materials we bought, as well as some materials that are not needed anymore. I think we are the group with most expensive booth ever.
There are only around 15 booths set up on the day of presentation, which around 20 booths should be expected. Some are very creative, very interactive and very fantastic, with good craftsmanship and brilliant ideas! Despite our booth which consists of only three planes of different qualities on a base, our booth achieved some good effects from reflection too, which is what we are aiming for!
The most important thing is that the booth must showcase Barcelona Pavilion very well, and easy to be understood! Not many people dare to walk into the space of our booth, maybe because it is too glary, reflective and maybe elegant inside…haha…we even did a booklet regarding the booth…ohh, yes, we are proud of our own masterpiece! Thumbs up to ourselves whom manage to finish it well with a good outcome and feedback as well!
Our booth is basically of three independent planes (show free plan concept) of three different qualities (tinted reflective, mirror-like, and transparent). The presentation board of five concepts including pictures and drawing are included on the clear transparent acrylic while the 3D models of column detail and free plan would be on the side of dark-tinted reflective perspex at the back to be adjacent with the board in front. The mirror-like structure at the end seems to create spatial illusion, while the column at scale 1:2 is placed at the front corner to complete the structure, especially seen as four columns by reflection.
Simple yet captivating! Less is more! Famous quote by the architect, Mies van der Rohe!
