Dehlin Brattgård Arkitekter creates "robust machine for experimental exhibitions" at ArkDes
The Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design in Stockholm has a new exhibition space within one of its lofty galleries, featuring wire mesh surfaces, a huge round window and a ramp winding round its exterior.
German studio Dehlin Brattgård Arkitekter designed Boxen to give ArkDes ? as the museum is better known ? a space better suited to presenting small-scale exhibitions.
Made primarily from steel, the multi-level structure is described by the museum as "a robust machine for fast-changing, experimental exhibitions".
Boxen gives ArkDes a space suited to presenting small-scale exhibitions
"Our brief for Boxen was simply to create a small gallery space for faster, cheaper, more experimental exhibitions and curatorial projects," explained museum director Kieran Long. "The museum had always lacked such a gallery, and we also felt that the lack of an independent gallery scene in Sweden required us to provide a platform for emerging, polemical practice."
It is installed within one of the museum's two 19th-century exhibition halls
Boxen is installed within one of the museum's two existing exhibition halls, a pair of 19th-century gymnasiums once used for military training, that face out towards a part of the building that was added by Rafael Moneo in the 1990s.
While its muted tones of white and grey blend in with its surroundings, Boxen's exposed utilitarian structure makes a bold statement. It features a visible framework of structural I-bea...
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