Sirivha Mwenje · 2020
Benaki Museum Pavilion Primary Function: Chiedza cheZvivakwa
by Eleftheria Deko and Associates
- Mubairo weSirivha we A' Design Award 2020 in Mwenje
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About Benaki Museum Pavilion Primary Function: Chiedza cheZvivakwa
Book Text: Benaki Museum Pavilion ndiyo hurongwa hwechiedza chezvivakwa hwechitoro chemuseum uye nzvimbo yekuratidzira. Gonhi resimbi rekupinda rinotenderera rine mabhokisi ekuratidzira, uye chiedza chakabatanidzwa muchimiro chegonhi. Zvishandiso zvakagadzirirwa zvakaita mabhora zvakaiswa nemagineti uye zvinopiwa simba nedunhu re-low voltage rakavezwa musimbi, saka hakuna matambo anoonekwa. Mukati, mabhaisikopo anogadziriswa akaiswa mumakwara akadzika pakati pemapango edenga ematanda. Chiedza che-cove chine ruvara ruchena rinotonhora rinosimbisa mashera e-aluminum foam, uye mabhaisikopo madiki akadzika anoratidza zvinhu zvekare.
About the Mubairo weSirivha we A' Design Award
Mubairo weSirivha we A' Design Award wakahwinwa ne Benaki Museum Pavilion Primary Function: Chiedza cheZvivakwa, rukudzo rwakakwirira zvikuru runopiwa kumadhizaini epamusoro, anonaka uye anofadza. Vakunda veSirivha mabasa anopenya kwazvo uye ane kugadzira kwakasiyana anoratidza unyanzvi, hunyanzvi hwekusikwa nekungwara kwevagadziri vawo. Benaki Museum Pavilion Primary Function: Chiedza cheZvivakwa inotarisirwa kuva basa rinoshamisa, rinotangira vamwe, rine hunyanzvi hunoonekwa uye zvitsva zvakadzika. Dhizaini iyi yakahwina Mubairo weSirivha we A' Design Award chigadzirwa chinoshamisa, chinokudzwa chinobatsira uye chinosundira mberi miganhu yehunyanzvi, sayenzi, dhizaini netekinoroji. Benaki Museum Pavilion Primary Function: Chiedza cheZvivakwa chigadzirwa chinoshuvirwa nevazhinji, chinomutsa zvishuvo, chinouya nemanzwiro akanaka uye chinomutsa kushamisika.
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- 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
- 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
