National Gallery Athens Fale Fa'aalia by Parmenidis Longuepee Mari Team

National Gallery Athens Fale Fa'aalia by Parmenidis Longuepee Mari Team is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award Auro in Mamanu Totonu Competition Category.

AuroTotonu· 2022

National Gallery Athens Fale Fa'aalia

by Parmenidis Longuepee Mari Team

Client: National Gallery of Greece

A' Design Award Auro Winner in Totonu Category

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The Design

About National Gallery Athens Fale Fa'aalia

I le fale fa'aonaponei a le 60s o le Fale Fa'aalia a le Atunu'u i Atene, o potu fa'aalia ua mamanuina e pei o se savaliga i le avanoa matala. Ua mamanuina le totonu e pei o se fa'asologa o nofoaga suiga fa'apipi'i laupapa mo fa'amatalaga, ma potu fa'aalia pa'epa'e ma taualuga tautau ua mamanuina fa'apitoa mo galuega fa'aalia ta'itasi. O le puleaina o itu fa'asaga o le va'ai, le loloto o va'aiga i totonu o potu ma agai i le aai, o le malamalama aoao e fetaui ma le malamalama i fafo, ma le fa'amaulaloina o mea fa'aoga ma fa'amatalaga fa'atekinolosi e fa'ailoa atili ai galuega tusiata, e tu'uina atu ai e le avanoa se lagona o le filifiliga sa'oloto.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Auro

O le A' Design Award Auro na manumalo ai National Gallery Athens Fale Fa'aalia, o se faamaoniga matuā mamalu e tuuina atu i mamanu o le tulaga muamua, matagofie ma maoaʻe. O ē manumalo i le Auro o galuega fou tele, matuā vaai i le lumanaʻi ma susulu e faaalia ai le atamai, le poto ma le tomai o tagata mamanu. E faamoemoeina National Gallery Athens Fale Fa'aalia e avea ma mea fou e matuā vivii, e faatulaga ai uiga fou ma tetele, e tuuina mai ai se tau e leʻi iai muamua. O lenei mamanu na manumalo i le A' Design Award Auro o se galuega ofoofogia, ua faaaloalogia, e aogā tele ma tuleia atu tapulaʻa o le faatufugaga, saienisi, mamanu ma tekonolosi. National Gallery Athens Fale Fa'aalia e fatuina ai lagona malosi o le manaʻo, faaosofia le tuinanau, faalauiloa le fatufatuaʻi ma faamalosia i tatou.

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.