The Changing Room, Biennale 2008

In August 2008

The installation explores the transformative potential of the material world. Just like clothes designers, architects offer alternate looks and identities, age and income-appropriate shells. These constructions consist of a miscellaneous package of endogenous and exogenous values; things and ideas that inherently belong to architecture and its traditions, and things and ideas that do not, but that nevertheless profoundly influence architecture. How to deal with this? Can architecture still have autonomy? According to UNStudio the lesson is to ?switch it on, switch it off?? to find autonomy in brief moments of liberation. On the inside of the structure, the visitor encounters a kaleidoscopic world of people posing, inviting voyeurism, and seeking transformation in their own conceptualizations.

This client's other projects

• Te Papa Museum Wellington
• Arnhem Central
• Five Franklin Place
• Expopavillion Shanghai
• Groninger Forum
• Catharijne Knoop
• Kultur- und Kongresszentrum Würth
• Flagstore Louis Vuitton
• Design Innovation Center
• IBG & Tax Offices
• Ciudad del Motor
• Urban Entertainment Center
• West Tunnel Entrance Combiplan Nijverdal
• Bridge over the Ijssel
• Urban Oasis Beach Road
• School of Design
• Dubai Water Front
• Erweiterung Städel Museum
• Forum K Stuttgart
• Bologna Masterplan and Train Station
• New Street Station
• Post Rotterdam
• Rose Garden Singapore
• Starplace Kaohsiung
• The Museum of Middle Eastern Modern Art (MOMEMA)
• Raffles City Hangzhou
• Galleria Department Store
• Ponte Parodi
• Da Vinci Projekt Karlsplatz
• Lock Island Bridges Dubai
• Rabobrug Utrecht
• Pavillon Battery Park
• Dalian Sports Center
• Perronkappen Arnhem Station
• Bürogebäude Münchener Rück
• Quartier Goetheplatz Frankfurt
• Dance Palace St. Petersburg
• The Circle at Zurich Airport
• Columbia Business School New York
• Stamford Road Competition
• Arnhem Central Perronfloors
• The Scotts Tower