Cardboard Cloud / Fantastic Norway
The “Cardboard Cloud”, an exhibit design by Fantastic Norway, opened this weekend in Oslo to the public. The exhibit was designed for the Center for Design and Architecture (DogA, previously featured on AD) and will display the works of Norwegian design students.
More information about the cloud and more images after the break.
“Being that the exhibition is set to present brand new design objects, we decided to base the architectural concept on the thrill of unpacking,” explained the architects. Working off that idea, more than 3000 cardboard boxes were arranged as “a large pixilated cloud” that hovered over the exhibited material inside the 350m2 exhibition hall.
The students’ works are integrated into the architectural framework of the exhibit by being displayed in, around and outside the cardboard boxes. The arrangement of boxes create spatial conditions that contain smaller areas and frame larger areas. In addition, the exhibition display focuses on the importance of reusing materials as all boxes will be recycled when the exhibit ends.
Fantastic Norway was also recently featured on our site for their Cabin Verdehaugen.
Credits
Architectural team: Håkon Matre Aasarød, Erlend Blakstad Haffner, Andrew Jason Linn, Magnus Ohren, Tomos Osmond, Anne Busemann, Mathias Steinbru, Anette Flygansvær, Ingeborg Cappelen Lindheim, Are Fredrik Berg and Håvard Arnhoff, Oscar Quan Lainfiesta.
Engineer: Ole Wroldsen
Curator: Benedicte Sunde, Janicke Sæther, Aslag Juell Kristensen
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Nice exhibition. It creates an interesting space as you wander through the clouds to get changing views of the complex forms.
This reminds me of a pavilion in Moscow’s VDNH. A simple modern box of a building, but inside there is this beautiful set of iron clouds just hanging of the ceiling. Simple cut-out clouds. Here it’s about shape, and there it’s about light and reflections.
Box art, i think most students have conceived of this at some point…
I really like the appearance of this. I’ve been there, and it is quite fun to wander around in it, experiencing many small places.
The big downside though -it steals all the attention and makes the exhibited objects, many of which being quite small, hard to see.
Cool idea, but possibly better fitted in some other context.
Nath: Sure, we have all “conceived of this at some point,” but also this seems to be executed well. I’d go see it if I were in Oslo.
Sweet as a palabalo nut
i guess recessions is starting to hit very hard!
This is somewhat like an exercise we use with kids (of all ages) to help them visualize how “their” city might actually work. A big success for over 40 years. Teachers love it too!
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some nice lighting design at the exibition too! fell in love with a desk top lamp there. pretty impressed, you should go take a look!
Cliché but that’s how Norwegian students do.
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