The United States Never Built: Los Angeles exhibition

设计方：克莱夫•威尔金森建筑师事务所

位置：美国 洛杉矶

分类：商业展示类装修

内容：实景照片

图片：7张

通过创造一个大型单一（却很复杂）的空间，传达出统一的体验，将博物馆密室油漆成黑色，并将其指定为暗室，用来在低光下展示藏品和放映Shimahara为这个展览设计的3D“漫游展示表演”。

设定城市背景基础为实验性的平台，我们决定将一个1938年的洛杉矶城黑白地图覆盖在地板上，以此从地理上定位地板表面和项目布局设计，接近很多方案的年代中点。这个地图与今天的密集的城市地图有很大区别，展示出一个成长中的城市在街道，林荫大道，未开发空间的间隔尺寸上的转变，以及洛杉矶独特的地势变形。

为进一步展示出畅通无阻的浏览空间，主区内的两个柱子覆盖高耸结构模拟，这个完美的10英尺高的LEGO建筑出自一个11年纪学生Tommy Musca。这个模型使用 65,000个LEGO片重建了1931年Lloyd Wright的洛杉矶天主教大教堂，与我们今天拥有的那个教堂在追求方面有很大不同。

由于从外部看博物馆是不透明的，我们需要一个与展览主题相关的吸人眼球的象征表现。一个大规模的透镜状表面的想法贴合了移动，科技和实验创新的概念，洛杉矶汽车文化在这个城市进化中曾起到这样的作用。一侧通告了展览，另一侧则展示出暗示着未来发展趋势的单轨形象。

译者： 蝈蝈

In March 2012, the curators of the “Never Built: Los Angeles,” Sam Lubell and Greg Goldin, approached our firm with the idea of designing their ambitious show to present the many fabulous schemes for the City of Los Angeles that ended up in the garbage bin, historically. We were honored to participate in such a valuable civic endeavor, and agreed to donate our services pro bono.

For several months our team met in our office to conceive a vision for the show that would work on several different levels: it should do justice to the multiple stories behind each scheme, it should allow the viewer to engage in the context, it should convert the limitations of the A+D museum space to the advantage of the show, and it should create a unified viewer experience.

The unified experience is conveyed through creating a single large (though complex) space, with the museum’s back room reinforced as an annex space by painting it black and designating it as a dark room for showing exhibits in low light, and for projecting 3D “fly-through renderings” designed for the show by Shimahara Illustration.

Grounding the context of the city as an experimental platform, we decided to geographically orientate the floor surface and the layout of projects by covering the floor with a black and white 1938 map of the City of Los Angeles, approximating to the chronological midpoint of many of the schemes. The map — so different from today’s dense urban map — shows a city in growth transition with all the granularity of streets, boulevards, undeveloped spaces, and Los Angeles’ unique distortions of topography.

To further suggest an unobstructed viewing space, the two columns within the main room are covered with high rise tower impersonations, the finest of which is a 10-foot-high LEGO construction by eleventh grader, Tommy Musca. This model uses 65,000 LEGO pieces to reconstruct Lloyd Wright’s massive Los Angeles Catholic Cathedral of 1931 — so very different in ambition to the one we have today.

Since the museum would be opaque from the exterior, we decided that we needed a compelling representation of the show theme. The idea of a large-scale lenticular surface appealed to a notion of movement, technological and experiential innovation, and the car culture of Los Angeles that has had such a role in the evolving face of this city. One side announces the show, and the other presents a monorail image suggesting an alternative future that might have been.

美国洛杉矶Never Built展览室内实景图

美国洛杉矶Never Built展览室内局部实景图

美国洛杉矶Never Built展览室内展厅实景图

美国洛杉矶Never Built展览外部实景图