Mary Duggan completes versatile events space inside London's Science Museum
Gauzy white curtains and subtly patterned floors help organise the layout of this events space, created by architect Mary Duggan for the Science Museum in London.
Occupying the fifth and sixth floors of the Science Museum's building in South Kensington, the two-room facility is designed as an "ever-changing theatre of activity".
Since the 1980s these rooms had been used as galleries dedicated to the history of medicine, with very little natural light.
To make them more suitable for hosting events, Mary Duggan and her team focused on getting rid of the "black box" appearance.
"Our approach to the design of the building has been one directed by a strong motivation to create visually and spatially distinctive interior environments, with the flexibility to provide for the needs of any user," explained Duggan. "Such a brief could easily default to a numb definition, a space defined only by the parameters of the functional parts," she continued, "so it was important that we created a space with its own identity."
Each floor is now split into a "served" zone that accommodates visitors and a "service" zone that contains ancillary functions, which are hidden behind pale partition walls. They are connected via a new, all-white staircase with a metal handrail.
Grey resin flooring in the visitors' area is printed with huge overlapping circles, intended to emulate the geometric colour experimentations that America...
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