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PROTECT ART!
Interactive Pavilion

The PROTECT ART Pavilion has been selected as a finalist and awarded an honorable mention for the CHART Fair Pavilion 2024, an annual event hosted at Charlottenborg Kunsthal in Copenhagen, Scandinavia’s leading art fair. â€‹

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Our proposal emphasizes the urgent need to "protect art" worldwide, aiming to serve as a catalyst for change and increased awareness. In a time when artistic freedom faces constant challenges and threats, we advocate for protecting art as a vital cultural and societal necessity. The pavilion design reflects this through a structure composed of four universally accessible materials; earth, wood, textile, and scaffolding embodying resilience and adaptability in the face of crisis.

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PROTECT ART!

 

Finalists for CHART Architecture 2024 
Neo Nordic  shelter for the arts. 
Copenhagen, Denmark

In 2024, Nordic architecture cannot not only be understood as a style signifying simplicity, local and sophisticated materiality. Instead, we propose the coming era to be defined by inclusiveness and crisis awareness. In the NEO age, climate crises, conflicts and global migrant flows have changed the geographic, demographic and cultural composition of our living environment.

 

As democratic and cultural institutions are being dismantled in nations across the world, we need to step toward and protect what is worth protecting: Arts and Culture. Our design of a temporary exhibition space for CHART reflects a the state of the world we are in, and responds to its disaster conditions. For CHART 2024, we propose a structure composed of four basic elements that are readily available most places in the world: Earth, textile and scaffolding. Sandbags, commonly used to protect our civilization from destruction, flooding or assault, are the main element,  taking the shape of two spiraling walls that together form a sheltered space. Above, a canopy of reusable scaffolding protects the space from rain, while a curtain around the edge shelter the visitors and artworks from wind and sunlight. Together, they form a refuge for art and for humanity.

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The audience is invited to step into and explore an exhibition space shaped by the pavilion’s coherent, flowing, double spiral design. This organic quality of the pavilion guides visitors naturally through the structure, encouraging a sense of discovery and connection. Inside, visitors are encouraged to engage with both the pavilion itself and selected artworks, creating an immersive and interactive experience.

 

As they walk, observe, and interact, visitors are introduced to a multi sensory journey that reimagines the conventional art exhibition. The pavilion challenges the sterile uniformity of traditional white walled museums, offering instead a dynamic and unexpected environment that amplifies the dialogue between art, space, culture and modernity. The materials of the pavilion speak to the fragility and transience of the times we live in. Sandbags, with their earthy tones, evoke the precarious state of the world and its constant need for support, and the weight of humanity’s current challenges. Meanwhile, the scaffolding, a symbol of rapid construction and densification, emphasize the temporary and ever shifting nature of our collective reality.

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