The exhibition is part of Archtober, a month-long festivalВ of architecture and design events in New York.Modeled on the master-apprenticeship relationship, student designers gain access to implicit design knowledge mainly through the conversations with their tutors during studio projects. With an estimated 280 miles of scaffolding inВ New York City at any given time,В the exhibition attempts to create alternative uses for the structural framework and a newВ appreciation. Image courtesy of the Center for Architecture.

It is exciting to experiment with the flexibility of scaffolding systems as an exhibition environment,вЂќ says Shohei Shigematsu, Partner-in-Charge at OMA New York. вЂњI am thrilled that the Center for Architecture will be temporarily 'under construction'. The installation also includes a set of periscopes allowing to see the exhibition from the street. It links the different spaces through one structure and expands the exhibition onto the streets, completely transforming the space and appearance ofВ Center for Architecture. The вЂњexhibition infrastructureвЂќ occupies all the galleries of the Center for Architecture. OMA New York created a large scaffolding installation throughout the galleries serving as a display structure.

Helloeverything and SelgasCano, Kibera Hamlets School, 2015-2016, Nairobi, Kenya. Hatch Workshop, Workers' Housing Prototype, 2017, Haryana, India. Photograph В© Florian Haydn, courtesy of the architects. Peter Fattinger, Veronika Orso, Michael Rieper and students from the Vienna University of Technology, Institute of Architecture and Design, add on. Photograph В© Michael Schuster, courtesy the architects. Peter Fattinger, Michael Rieper and students from the Vienna University of Technology, Institute of Architecture and Design, SELFWARE.surface, 2003, Graz, Austria. Among the chosen examples, youвЂ™ll find the work by students at Vienna University of Technology, SelgasCanoвЂ™s project in Kenya and housing prototypes in India. It also presents contemporary chosen scaffolding projects from across the world, including display structures,В housing prototypes, and participatory self-build schemes. Image courtesy of the Center for Architecture.Дrawing the history of the construction technology, Scaffolding, looks at wooden sticks in European middle age, the use of bamboo in Asia and more recently the use of industrialized steel and aluminum sticks. It is commonly invoked as a powerful metaphor by many disciplines due to its supportive role and adaptive qualities.вЂќ The exhibition explores the possibilities of this building method beyond construction sites as way to enable civic engagement. Image courtesy of the Center for Architecture.Д¬urator Barton says 'Scaffolding functions as a noun and verb, object and process. The installation is designed by Shohei Shigematsu and OMA New York, with graphic design by MTWTF. Often underlooked, if not ignored, scaffolding populates our cities and offer a flexible, modular, accessible and fast method to build structures.В Curated by independent researcher Greg Barton, the exhibition Scaffolding at the Center for Architecture in New York (OctoвЂ“ January 18, 2018), examines the history,В contemporary applications and endless possibilitiesВ of scaffolding.

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