Neubaugasse 10/4
Housing in Vienna - Exhibition Design
Venice - first prize
The design of the cairo pods provides the chance to explore opportunities within the aggregation of repetitive objects that imply the creation of heterogeneous figurations. In the case of the cairo pods the geometric plane was extended in the third dimension and delaminated to produce specific elements emerging out of the basic planar geometry. Forming three distinctive elements to comprise one pod. the pods purpose is to serve as exhibition vitrine in varying spaces.
The topic of the exhibition, Housing in Vienna, deals with the quality of subsidized residential housing in Vienna. Vienna has an interesting history on this term, rooted in the red Vienna of the 20ies of the twentieth century.
The show was commissioned by the Az W, the Architecture Center Vienna in 2008