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Henry van der Velde (*1863 †1957) Kunstgewerbeschule Weimar (1908)

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The origins of Bauhaus can be trace

back to the 19th century. It had begun

to be developed as a response to the

devastating consequences of Industrial

Revolution as initiating a shift in the

manufactured products and product

design, later it would be enhanced to

the way of art and design education.

Bauhaus has a huge impact on modern

art, design and architecture as developing

a merge of machine production and arts

and crafts. Celebrating the hundred years

of Bauhaus, we would like to emphasize

the close relations between design and

industry, which Bauhaus achieved most

successfully, with designing a modular

exhibition system which enables a variety

of spatial properties for different contexts.

Bauhaus-University Weimar | history

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Henry van der Velde (*1863 †1957) Hauptgebäude Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (1911)

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Henry van de Velde, the designer of

the iconic building of the Grand Ducal

Saxon Academy of Fine Arts -today

known as Bauhaus University- in

Weimar, emitted his architectural design

approach to the world. He believed

in that the structural components

of a building should be designed as

ornaments, they should give a character

to the building, yet to be necessary to

the structure. His Oberlichtsaal Gallery

was evaluated through this approach

and taken as an initial background. In

that background, it has been designed

a structural system that provides many

spatial possibilities which intends to

demonstrate the togetherness of

design and structure. Therefore, the

inspiration of Bauhaus is not taken

literally, but it is taken conceptually.

The system attempts to take a step

forward from the Bauhaus methodology

of designing the elements of design

to another stage of designing the

flexibility as well. Flexibility is a crucial

issue in exhibition design responding

to the demand of differentiated space

for a huge variety of art works. Hence,

realization of the system would push the

exhibition design further by offering a

great deal of capabilities of displaying.

Exhibition 2019 Oberlichtsaal

Realisation of the Cubet-System

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Cubet Concepts

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Cubet is a system provides many display

possibilities which allows designers to

create various attractive space to exhibit

art works. The profile has a special

design offering a hidden space for

infrastructure inside of the frame and a

sophisticated detailing for assembling

different construction components.

There is a cut out inside of the

frame for embedding infrastructural

elements, which the exhibition might

need, such as electricity, sensors and

LEDs. Hence, in case of the using

such elements, they will not be

exposed and disturb the exhibition.

The railing detail enables panels, LCD

screens, reflective panels, translucent

panels to be assembled inside of the

frame and/or on the frame. These panel

elements could be used as information

screens, light source, exhibition room for

the art work, installation components

and other to imagine possibilities.

CUBET The Exhibition System

The Cubet gives the opportunity to

construct a three dimensional grid

system that the curators/exhibition

designers could play around with spatial

possibilities. The exhibition space and

the furniture elements inside of it are

generated by the composition of the

frame and the additional elements,

which is mentioned above.

In conclusion, the system is a competent

example of adaptable design.

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The Oberlichtsaal gallery is intended

to study conceptually in order to create

a topography. The study is taken as

an interpretation of Oberlichtsaal

gallery based on a shadow mapping

of the existing structure. The aim is to

Concept Shadow Walk

translate the features of Oberlichtsaal

gallery into an architectonic

landscape as an exhibition space.

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An exhibition hall constructed as a

composition of the panels and the Cubet

frames are assembled together. There

are LEDs embedded on the frames.

The panels, which are movable in each

frame cube, are connected to LEDs with

a circuit. The light fades up and down

based on the movement of the panel.

Hence, visitors are able to control the

light through a physical interaction.

Concept Light Interaction

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The duplicated reflection of the mirror

shows a new way of a media which

is virtual mass produced. It generates

a new space of augmented reality.

Concept Mirror Concept

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Cubet Technical Explanation

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Technical Explaination

The Cubet profile contains of two

parts which are symmetrical. Thus,

the production of the pieces would

be easy and fast in means of mass

production. In spite of the particular mass

production process of the sophisticated

profiles, the system is set up by using

the standard construction components

Connector Column

such as, M10, M6 and M5 screws and

the standard size for RGB LED stripes.

The Cubet, also, provides a variety

of possibilities to use the products

which are available on market for

constructing an exhibition space based

on the different desired conditions.

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Column

» long-drawn Aluminium profile

»1.5 mm wall thickness

» two symmetric parts for one column

»attachment holes (M10 | M6 | M5)

»notch for Add-on plug-ins

Column | Two Site Views (Rotated 45°)

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Connector

» Injection Molding with

Glasfiber Polyamin

»2.0 mm wall thickness

Technical Detail

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Module Catalogue

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AddOns for Cubet

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ScrewFixer (F01)

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ScrewFixer (F01)

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Screw

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Fixer (F01) Sliding Rail (SR01)

or

Screw

or

Fixer (F01) Sliding Rail (SR01)

Light Cover (LC01)

V01Panel

V02Screen

V03Light

V04Interactive

V05Furniture

V...Creativity

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RGB LED Stripes

Mat erial

Panel

Panel

Device Box /Case

Fabric Metal

Wood Glass

on Market POSSIBILITY

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Screen

LCD Projection Display Touchscreen

Poster Display Cover (Metal, Plastic, Fabric ...)

Display Panel Poster Panel Documentation Panel

Mirror Effect Cover Panels

Movie Screen Video Installation Touch Interaction

Illuminate of Frame System (Column & Cap of Connector)

Light Spots System Illuminate of Exhibition & Event Space

Light Panel System Illuminate of Exhibition & Event Space

Case for Supporting Media Application Parts

Functional Exhibition Space Bar & Cafe Space Furniture

Light Illumination

Cable

Cable

Cable

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Cable

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Cable

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Stagelight

Projector Computer Arduino

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Cubet Mockup

BOQMaterial Size (mm) Quantity min. € max. €

Connector Brass (Prototype)

45x45x45 8 5 30

Wood 45x45x45 68 0.15 0.25Aluminium(Prototype)

45x45x455 12 10 1350

Wood 45x45x455 136 3 5

InsectionLED Waterproof 455(Stripe) 8 10 15Panel Mirror 455x455x10 9 10 30

Wood 455x455x20 5 5 15Plastic 455x455x10 4 10 20

Total 820 17’700

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Research & Prototyping of the Aluminium Profil

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Protoype 01

Protoype 03

Protoype 04

Protoype 05

Protoype 02

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Supervision

Prof. Bernd Rudolf, Building Design / A+UProf. Andreas Kästner, Presentation Methodology / A+UProf. Dr. Jens Geelhaar, Interface Design / M / Vertr. Prof. Michael MarkertDr.-Ing. Sabine Zierold

Project Participants

Janette SesselmannOlaf KammlerIremnur TokacMu ChenKan FengShuyan Chen

“Oberlichtsaal Gallery“ Project Modul WS 2015/16

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