Chinese design firm Studio 10 has used translucent materials and winding ramps to create a series of abstract spaces to display artefacts at the Fashioned from Nature exhibition at the V&A's outpost in Shenzhen.
Studio 10 transformed the V&A museum's gallery at the Fumihiko Maki-designed Sea World Culture and Arts Center in Shenzhen to host the exhibition on fashion and the natural world, which previously displayed in London.
Top: Exhibition design by Studio 10. Above: backlit fabrics look to create an impression of foliage
The entirely new exhibition design divides the show into two sections.
The first section details the relationship between fashion and nature since the 16th century and has a design that references classical gardens. Named Fashioned from Nature in China: Then and Now, the second part of the exhibition examines a similar theme but with a focus on China and takes a more contemporary design approach.
Translucent fabrics were used to create zones
Studio 10 created a series of abstract spaces that guide visitors on a journey through the exhibition.
At the entrance, the studio used a steel structure wrapped in Tyvek ? a translucent synthetic fabric ? to create a long corridor that looks to reflect the uniformity and rigidness of classical gardens.
Translucent fabrics are backlit throughout the corridor to reveal "vine-like" fibres that mimic a tunnel of foliage.
Fibres in the fabric reference vines
"We debated using fabrics with prin...