Benaki Museum Pavilion Primary Function: Kev Ci Nkag Rau Vaj Tsev by Eleftheria Deko and Associates

Benaki Museum Pavilion Primary Function: Kev Ci Nkag Rau Vaj Tsev by Eleftheria Deko and Associates is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award Nyiaj in Tsim Teeb thiab Khoom Siv Teeb Competition Category.

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Benaki Museum Pavilion Primary Function: Kev Ci Nkag Rau Vaj Tsev

by Eleftheria Deko and Associates

A' Design Award Nyiaj Winner in Teeb Category

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The Design

About Benaki Museum Pavilion Primary Function: Kev Ci Nkag Rau Vaj Tsev

Book Text: Benaki Museum Pavilion yog ib txoj kev npaj teeb ci rau ib lub khw thiab chaw tso khoom nthuav qhia hauv lub tsev khaws puav pheej. Lub qhov rooj hlau uas tig tau muaj cov thawv tso khoom nthuav qhia, thiab cov teeb ci raug tsim koom ua ke rau hauv lub qhov rooj. Cov khoom teeb ci uas kheej muaj cev tsim tshwj xeeb raug txhos nrog lub maus faws thiab siv hluav taws xob voltage qis uas raug txaug rau hauv daim hlau, yog li ntawd tsis pom cov xov hluav taws xob. Sab hauv, cov teeb ci uas kho tau raug teeb tsa rau hauv cov kev khaus nkaus ntawm cov puab ntoo saum qab tsev. Cov teeb ci cove uas dawb tshiab txhawb nqa cov txee aluminum foam, thiab cov teeb ci me uas khaus nkaus ua kom cov khoom qub tseem ci ntsa iab.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Nyiaj

Benaki Museum Pavilion Primary Function: Kev Ci Nkag Rau Vaj Tsev yog tus yeej ntawm A' Design Award Nyiaj, ib qho kev lees paub muaj meej mom heev tshaj li qub uas muab rau cov qauv tsim qib siab, zoo nkauj thiab ua rau neeg xav tsis thoob. Cov neeg yeej Nyiaj yog cov haujlwm ci ntsa iab heev thiab tsim tshiab heev uas qhia txog kev paub, kev txawj ntse thiab kev ntse ntawm cov kws tsim qauv. Benaki Museum Pavilion Primary Function: Kev Ci Nkag Rau Vaj Tsev xav tias yuav yog ib qho haujlwm zoo kawg nkaus uas tsim rau qhia, tshaj lij heev thiab tsim tshiab tob. Cov qauv tsim yeej A' Design Award Nyiaj no yog ib qho khoom tsim uas pom tseeb heev thiab neeg qhuas uas pab tau thiab nthuav dav ciam teb ntawm kev kos duab, kev tshawb fawb, kev tsim qauv thiab thev naus laus zis. Benaki Museum Pavilion Primary Function: Kev Ci Nkag Rau Vaj Tsev yog ib qho khoom tsim uas neeg coob xav tau, uas ua rau xav, coj kev xav zoo thiab ua rau xav tsis thoob thiab xav paub.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: The signature entrance iron door holds exhibit cases and the concept was the lighting to be part of the structure. The lighting of the interior is also discreet and achieved with adjustable spots in recessed tracks between the ceiling wooden beams, so not to interfere with the general aesthetics, but to provide lighting adaptability. The aluminum foam shelves with their shimmering glow are given more emphasis with a dramatic effect of the cove lighting in cool white. The desired atmosphere was completed by tiny recessed track spot lights in the shelves, to highlight the artifacts
Dimensions & Packaging: Ceiling tracks: W 17mm x H 20mm x L custom.
Ceiling spots: Ø38mm, H 60mm.
Shelves' recessed track: W 17mm x H 20mm x L custom.
Curved especially for recessing into the round-shaped shelves.
Shelves' spots: Ø14mm, H 18mm.
Custom spherical magnetic spots: Ø35mm.
Tags: Light, Lighting design, Lighting fixtures, prototype, novelties, track system, magnetic spot, retail, exhibition
Production Technology: Lighting Manufacturers: Viabizzuno, Linea Light, Lights On.

Use of the minimum size of track systems and fixtures for general lighting of the space and artifacts lighting on the shelves, LEDstrips for cove lighting and custom made small-scale fixtures for magnetic mounting on the exhibition cases of the pivoting iron door.
Design Challenge: No product could provide lighting on the door with no obvious cables or infrastructure so everything was prototype. We designed small spherical LED fixtures for flexibility and style. We used magnets inside the bodies and a 3mm wide circuit was carved in each case on the metal structure of the door, powered with low voltage for electrifying the custom-made fixtures. The challenges were: to engrave this micro power-line on the metal structure, to insulate it, to supply it with electricity despite the pivotal movement of the door and the spherical spot light to be stable and well secured on.
Research: The lighting design respected the architect's concept throughout the process. The small size of the building along with the demanding parameters of a shop and exhibition venue, were the context for the lighting study. The study was based on technical research in order to make possible LIGHTING WITHOUT VISIBLE CABLES , for the spotlights of the iron entrance door. A group of people from electrical engineers to craftsmen worked on realizing the prototypes of the small scale lighting fixtures that we had designed as spheres in order to add the unique character of this project.
Inspiration: In a unique symbiosis of Culture and Leisure, the Benaki Museum inaugurated in June 2019 a new pavilion into the Four Seasons Astir Palace Hotel at the Athens Riviera. The building that functions as the Museum’s shop as well as an exhibition space, is an example of Greek modern architecture built in the 50s. The architectural concept was inspired by the binaries of the day and night cycle. The pivotal movement of the entrance gate mirrors this succession. The lighting concept was through simplicity and minimalism to highlight the architectural features as well as the concept. Night and day, light and shadow, visible and invisible, inside and outside were the path the lighting design concept, followed.
Project Duration: The project lasted 4 months from concept to execution.
Operation Flow: The flexibility of the track system both on the shelves as well as between the ceiling wooden beams gives a lot of freedom to the operators of the shop to change the positions of the merchandise and often have a new look. Similar adaptability has the entrance door / display with the magnetic custom and patent pending spherical lights that can be moved freely on it.
Patents: Copyrights belong to Eleftheria Deko & Associates, 2019
Team Members: Architectural Study: Kois Associated Architects
Image Credits: Image #1: Photographer George Sfakianakis, Benaki Museum Pavilion, 2019
Image #2: Photographer George Sfakianakis, Benaki Museum Pavilion, 2019
Image #3: Photographer George Sfakianakis, Benaki Museum Pavilion, 2019
Image #4: Photographer George Sfakianakis, Benaki Museum Pavilion, 2019
Image #5: Photographer George Sfakianakis, Benaki Museum Pavilion, 2019