Rotterdam-based architects Studio Verter transformed the interior of the Kortrijk Expo centre for Biennale Interieur 2018, creating a "city" with a public square and meeting spaces.
Studio Verter created the scenography to mark the 50th anniversary of the biennale in Kortrijk, Belgium, the second oldest design fair in the world.
Its proposal for the biennale, which ran from 18 to 22 October 2018, brought together the halls of the exhibition centre by introducing the idea of an archetypal "city square".
Conrad Willems installed a series of building-like sculptures at Biennale Interieur
This space spanned two of the exhibitions halls and was delineated by a white facade made from simple wooden frames and scaffolding netting painted white and punctured with regular openings. "The facade is really the central element," Studio Verter co-founder Roxane van Hoof told Dezeen. "If you think about the city, this facade is the square and the other spaces are more like an active forum with different things going on and active elements that all have their own presence."
Adam Nathaniel Furman's Lumalisk was patterned with emojis and rainbow gradients
Inside the square, the studio invited other designers and artists to create landmarks that appeared alongside the design companies and galleries that were exhibiting.
These included a nine-metre-tall obelisk called Lumalisk by UK-based designer Adam Nathaniel Furman patterned with emojis and rainbow ...