National Gallery Athens Museo by Parmenidis Longuepee Mari Team

National Gallery Athens Museo by Parmenidis Longuepee Mari Team is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award de Ouro in Deseño de Espazos Interiores e de Exposición Competition Category.

OuroInteriorismo· 2022

National Gallery Athens Museo

by Parmenidis Longuepee Mari Team

Client: National Gallery of Greece

A' Design Award de Ouro Winner in Interiorismo Category

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The Design

About National Gallery Athens Museo

No edificio moderno dos anos 60 da Galería Nacional de Atenas, as salas de exposición están deseñadas como un paseo nun espazo aberto. O interior está deseñado como unha secuencia de áreas de transición revestidas de madeira para información, e de salas de exposición brancas con teitos suspendidos especialmente deseñados para cada función expositiva. Controlando as direccións da mirada, a profundidade visual nas salas e cara á cidade, a iluminación xeral en relación coa luz exterior, e subordinando os materiais e os detalles técnicos para destacar as obras de arte, o espazo ofrece un efecto de libre escolla.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Ouro

National Gallery Athens Museo gañou o A' Design Award de Ouro, un recoñecemento inmensamente prestixioso outorgado a deseños de primeira clase, marabillosos e sobresaíntes. Os gañadores Ouro son creacións sumamente innovadoras, visionarias e glamurosamente deslumbrantes que reflicten o xenio, a sabedoría e a destreza dos seus deseñadores. Espérase que National Gallery Athens Museo sexa unha invención moi eloxiada, pioneira e monumental que ofrece un valor sen precedentes. Este deseño gañador do A' Design Award de Ouro é un proxecto espectacular e respectado que beneficia moito a arte, a ciencia, o deseño e a tecnoloxía e fai avanzar os seus límites. National Gallery Athens Museo crea intensos sentimentos de desexo, esperta a paixón, anima a creatividade e fascina.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: Interior design, museography of the accessible spaces of the visitors:
Permanent exhibition areas, with large exhibition panels and suspended ceilings function as lighting mechanisms. Areas for alternating exhibitions, with suspended ceilings to support panels, lighting, projectors. Entrance area and circulation junctions covered with wooden panels for orientation and division of space.
Excerpts from the city are visible in a two-way relationship between the work of art and the city.
Dimensions & Packaging: Total area accessible of the visitors 8.500 sm, distributed over 6 floors.
Tags: museography, interior space, gaze, minimalism
Production Technology: The materials in the exhibition and entrance areas are mainly metallic frames covered with panels of gypsum or wood, for the walls, or with Stretched Ceiling translucent diffusor films. The materials are subdued to highlight the works of art: wood without strong veins, matte marble on the floor, grey coloured exhibition walls.
Design Challenge: The hardest part was the coordination of the large number of the constructors and engineers of the building and the museography, of the supervisors of the Ministry of Culture (as we are talking about the National Gallery), of the curators and conservators of the Gallery, of the consultants of the sponsors.
Research: Our team has a long experience of over 50 similar studies and constructions, on art exhibitions. In the specific project, we combined the given structure of the building with the museology study of the National Gallery and with the free flow of the visitor of the exhibition, checking the results through the navigation in detailed 3d maquettes.
Inspiration: The design of a permanent and alternating exhibition of the Greek art of 19-20th c., with material and geometric spatial indexes for the gaze that give the sense of free choice to the movement of the visitors (panels facing the incoming visitor permitting the maximum depth of the field of view), in a continuous open-air feeling due to the general indirect lighting that follows the incoming view of the excerpts of the city. Minimalism and materials that are subdued to highlight the works of art.
Project Duration: The study of the project started in 2017 and finished in 2020 in Athens. The construction started in 2020 and finished in 2021.
Operation Flow: The visitor can have information general or specific for the art works in each exhibition room, or for the projects of the museum, or for the orientation in the building by 60 interactive screens placed in the entrance and the circulation knots.
Team Members: architect: George Parmenidis
architect: Christine Longuepee
architect: Ifigenia Mari
Image Credits: All photos own to the team.