The Shape of Stones

    ‘Concrete’ elements aligned in the gallery.
    The restrained design of the partitions,
    mitigates the stoic expression of the ‘concrete’
    producing a quiet exhibition space

The Shape of Stones exhibition was designed to be a restoration of the Prinsekwartier building’s interior. Free from the general practices of exhibitions, the walls and ceilings of the space have been stripped down to its base construction of brick and timber. No element of the design is to intersect, or connect, to the ‘shell’ of the Prinsekwartier.
Within this shell, a program of wood frame walls made to imitate concrete elements in size, shape, form, texture, colour, and stoicism are organized to create spaces and rooms, within which display space is allocated through a series of ironwood shelves for a selection of 2000 minerals from the Mineralogical-Geological Museum of the TU Delft Science Center.

Samuel Gradel

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