From January to August 2023, I helped prepare for Carnegie Mellon Architecture’s Fall 2023 EX-CHANGE exhibition, an annual publication and exhibition celebrating work from all students in the program. My responsibilities included assisting in catalog work curation, exhibition design, and exhibition fabrication.
Schematic Design
Right: Concept and Design Detail Iterations
The exhibition brief from the school asked to focus on the display of physical models and projections of digital media including film and animation. The final scheme used was imagined as an archipelago of island of horizontal surface for 3D Media mixed with various vertical surfaces for projection and 2D Media. The exhibition is organized by chronology from first to fifth year. Each group of tables would be dedicated to a year, and elective coursework would occupy the spaces between each year.
The brief also called for a centerpiece to occupy the center of the Great Hall, for which a bookshelf holding the catalogs would stand.
Below: Concept and Design Detail Iterations
Left: A series of foamcore panel walls served as projection surfaces for digital work. Below are detail diagram of proposed design scheme exploring the use of supergraphics for foam panel wall system using the characters "EX-CHANGE".
Fabrication
The exhibition was fabricated over the two weeks prior to the start of the semester and disassembled across the third and fourth weeks of the semester. A custom-designed and fabricated bookshelf was placed at the center of the exhibition, serving to link the exhibition with the publication
Clockwise, from top left
1. Bookshelf Assembly Diagram
2. CNC Milling toolpath for the EX-CHANGE sign
3. Custom interlocking and stackable legs for creating model display towers
4. Fabrication cutsheets for the stackable legs
5. Signage CNC Milling
Final plan and material count for the exhibition
