National Gallery Athens Hale Hoʻikeʻike by Parmenidis Longuepee Mari Team

National Gallery Athens Hale Hoʻikeʻike by Parmenidis Longuepee Mari Team is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award Gula in Hoʻolālā Loko Hale a me Hōʻike Competition Category.

GulaLoko Hale· 2022

National Gallery Athens Hale Hoʻikeʻike

by Parmenidis Longuepee Mari Team

Client: National Gallery of Greece

A' Design Award Gula Winner in Loko Hale Category

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The Design

About National Gallery Athens Hale Hoʻikeʻike

Ma loko o ka hale kinohou o nā makahiki ʻ60 o ka Hale Kiʻi Aupuni ma ʻĀkena, ua hoʻolālā ʻia nā lumi hoʻikeʻike e like me he ala hele ma kahi ākea. Ua hoʻolālā ʻia ka loko e like me he kaʻina o nā wahi ma waena i pālena ʻia e ka lāʻau no ka ʻike, a me nā lumi hoʻikeʻike keʻokeʻo me nā kaupaku lewa i hoʻolālā kūikawa ʻia no kēlā me kēia hana hoʻikeʻike. Ma ka alakaʻi ʻana i nā ʻaoʻao o ka nānā ʻana, ka hohonu o ka ʻike ma nā lumi a i ka pili pū ʻana me ke kūlanakauhale, ka mālamalama nui e pili pū ana me ka mālamalama waho, a me ka hoʻohāmau ʻana i nā mea kūkulu a me nā kikoʻī ʻenehana e hoʻonani i nā hana noʻeau, hāʻawi ka wahi i kahi ʻano o ka koho manuahi.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Gula

Ua lanakila ka hoʻolālā National Gallery Athens Hale Hoʻikeʻike i ka A' Design Award Gula, he ʻike hoʻohanohano nui loa i hāʻawi ʻia i nā hoʻolālā pae mua, kupaianaha a kūʻokoʻa. He mau hana hou loa, ʻike maka a nani hoʻolaʻa nā lanakila Gula e hōʻike ana i ka ʻuhane akamai, ka naʻauao a me ka mākau o kā lākou poʻe hoʻolālā. Manaʻo ʻia ʻo ka hoʻolālā National Gallery Athens Hale Hoʻikeʻike he mea hoʻokumu i hoʻomaikaʻi nui ʻia, e hoʻokumu ana i nā ʻano hou, he nui, e hāʻawi ana i ka waiwai ʻaʻole i ʻike ʻia ma mua. ʻO kēia hoʻolālā i lanakila i ka A' Design Award Gula he papahana kupaianaha, mahalo ʻia e hāʻawi i ka pōmaikaʻi nui a hoʻoneʻe i nā palena o ka hana noʻeau, ka ʻepekema, ka hoʻolālā a me ka ʻenehana. Hoʻāla ka hoʻolālā National Gallery Athens Hale Hoʻikeʻike i nā manaʻo makemake ikaika, hoʻāla i ka ʻiʻini, hoʻoulu i ka hana noʻeau a hoʻopūliki iā mākou.

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.