2021
The Raid
Client
The National Museum of Denmark
Location
Copenhagen
Client
The National Museum of Denmark
Location
Copenhagen
Delivering sculptural fabric installations for an immersive museum experience
We designed and installed a series of fabric wave sculptures for The Raid exhibition, creating a dynamic, immersive environment that guides visitors through a Viking narrative.
Sector
Museums & Exhibitions
Project team
Products
Art InstallationsFabric
- Dazian, Spandex – Trapeze Plus Contrast Grey
Fabric Wave Sculptures
Event Communications Ltd approached us to help them develop a series of 9 fabric wave sculptures to embody the water element of the new Viking exhibition, menacingly titled The Raid, and which opened June 2021. The waves help create a dynamic & natural flow for visitors as they follow the tour.
A Framing System for Stretched Fabric
Our solution utilised similar details from a project we were proudly involved in with Zaha Hadid, the JS Bach Music Hall, and encompasses a light aluminium modular framing system. Double skinned stretched spandex fabric, patterned specifically for the complex organic geometries, provides a soft sense motion and defines the exhibit space the museum were looking for.
An Impressive Museum Space
The finished fabric forms add theatre to the installation with a sense of the ocean to fit with the origins of the Vikings. A separate blackout skin fitted between the spandex allows the museum to project imagery onto the fabric as part of the exhibit and because of the modular design, the structures can be used again for future exhibitions.
