Exhibit Analysis

"Some Assembly Required: Contemporary Prefabricated Houses"
Walker Art Center - 2006

This exhibit focused on eight prefabricated houses, most coming from young up and coming architects. The exhibit itself uses several different means of communication including scale models, floor plans, large images, assembly diagrams, interactive animations, videos of actual installations, full scale material samples, and even a sturdy walk through model. As you can see in the image above the images and drawings of all different sizes are attached to the wall using four strips. These strips help take many different sized images and unify them through four horizontal lines that run behind. So not only do these seamless strips wrap around corners but also creates a sense of unity for the groups of pictures and the exhibit as a whole.

The above image shows an example of the interactive displays used in the exhibit. Small monitors were used along with headphones to help bring another dimension to the exhibit. The use of headphones was very important to the exhibit because it allowed visitors to interact to another degree while still keeping a quite atmosphere within the exhibit itself. The small display monitors created a more intimate one on one feeling however allow only a few visitors at a time to view the display. Also, as you can see in the images above, the text that was displayed was done so in a very interesting way. The wall was painted light blue on one half and black text was applied on top of the blue wall.

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