ciro najle general design bureau

Ivault is an exhibition system based on the distribution of A4 size print outs along the u and v coordinates that organize the curvature of a dome, covering the space of a staircase for an exhibition at the Architectural Association, an old row house in London. Ivault integrates the content, context, structure, graphics, and iconicity of the exhibition in a single object-field that distributes the material, orientates its display, and organizes its classification, simultaneously to the didactic use and ornamentation of the space.

 

Inversely to the way a dome reduces the size of its components towards its peak, the pages unfold, and their content opens. Inversely to the way beams carry loads down within the inertia of their section, Ivault offers gaps that vary in size only to partially expose its structure above it. Inversely to the appearance of solidity, steadiness, and predictability in a dome, Ivault moves as the mildest of winds flows. Its surface is not its finishing but its flesh. But its structure has been removed from its form, and its forces run transversally to its tectonic connotations.