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An exhibition searching and proposing new possibilities on Parisian urban planning named "Nouveaux Paris – La ville et ses possibles" was revealed on March 16, 2005 at Arsenal Pavilion, an exhibition hall exclusively attached to the City of Paris. The Pavilion invited Japanese architect Toyo Ito for scenic design, who came up with idea to transform this old iron structural house into a light cloud with aluminium and cloth.
The exhibition is located at upper floor of the Pavilion, where the large central part is open to the void space to three storey. This volume was walled at four sides by aluminium grid structure in which some exhibition components such as picture panels are located. On the other side, the external walls of the building are covered entirely with double layered white tissue. These curtains are partly used as film projection from behind and partly printed with some maps and diagrams. The exhibition is divided into five thematic zones by small box room of aluminium structure.
The spatial experience is dynamic. The exhibition rooms are the living rooms of Parisian residences. Representative sofas and stools designed by the architect himself are dispatched in each room to emphasize this effect. The girds to the void symbolize windows through which people look outside of the urban landscape and see many other windows in the narrow street of Paris.
Lighting is obviously designed in order to promote the spatial concept and to give most importance to the interesting contrast of materials – at the same time, to enlighten the contents exposed on them. The curtains are generally back-lit, except film projection parts, by projectors and linear light sources of warm colour temperature to create homey ambience. The texture of the clothe, also designed by Toyo Ito, stands up in silhouette in this method. Only entrances to annex alcoves are lit from front to shine up the motives differently.
The acrylic panels with pictures and text covering some part of the grid aluminium structure are treated with cool temperature compact light sources integrated inside of each grid to represent daylight coming through the window. Seeing from the other side of the void, these light boxes look like windows diffusing light out to the cityscape.
Small aluminium box room separating each thematic zones contain no light. Mere light reflected from surrounding atmosphere penetrate into them through the opening, luminous enough to percept printed materials on wall, so to make an interesting articulation between zones.
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