Mendeel Um A7mad (N x I x S x M) - Alqatami Aziz
2019
An interior architectural precedent featuring a surreal, giant consumer-product art installation housed within an industrial warehouse volume, viewed through a clean glazed threshold.
- What we like about this project
- The meticulous branding graphics of a standard tissue box scaled up to architectural dimensions.
Materials
- glass
- aluminum
- painted-board
- concrete
Visual identifiers
- giant-tissue-box
- industrial-warehouse
- glass-storefront
- pink-installation
Style tags
- conceptual
- contemporary
- industrial
- surreal
Visual tags
- installation
- warehouse
- pop-art
- scale-contrast
- exhibition-space
- Geometry
- A giant rectangular tissue box structure positioned centrally within an industrial warehouse, viewed head-on through a glazed storefront frame.
- Facade system
- Aluminum-framed glass storefront opening into a large open industrial hall.
- Structural guess
- Steel portal frame warehouse structure with concrete slab floor.
- Spatial scale
- Massive scale contrast between the warehouse shell and the oversized tissue box structure.
- Lighting
- Cool overhead industrial task lighting and spotlighting directed onto the central pink installation against a dim backdrop.
- Atmosphere
- Theatrical, surreal, and slightly absurd mood created by the vast industrial emptiness contrasted with an oversized household object.
- Environmental context
- Interior of an industrial warehouse or large commercial shell space.
- Spatial experience
- The viewer stands outside looking through transparent double glass doors into a cavernous, utilitarian warehouse space dominated by an oversized consumer object.
- Composition rhythm
- Symmetrical front-facing composition framed by the mullions of the glass doorway, leading the eye straight to the central colored volume.
- Style reading
- Contemporary conceptual interior installation
- Program
- Art installation / exhibition space
- Perspective
- Interior Spatial
- Discipline
- interior
- Materials
- glass, aluminum, painted-board, concrete
- Visual identifiers
- giant-tissue-box, industrial-warehouse, glass-storefront, pink-installation
- Style tags
- conceptual, contemporary, industrial, surreal
- Visual tags
- installation, warehouse, pop-art, scale-contrast, exhibition-space
- Geometry
- A giant rectangular tissue box structure positioned centrally within an industrial warehouse, viewed head-on through a glazed storefront frame.
- Facade system
- Aluminum-framed glass storefront opening into a large open industrial hall.
- Structural guess
- Steel portal frame warehouse structure with concrete slab floor.
- Spatial scale
- Massive scale contrast between the warehouse shell and the oversized tissue box structure.
- Lighting
- Cool overhead industrial task lighting and spotlighting directed onto the central pink installation against a dim backdrop.
- Atmosphere
- Theatrical, surreal, and slightly absurd mood created by the vast industrial emptiness contrasted with an oversized household object.
- Environmental context
- Interior of an industrial warehouse or large commercial shell space.
- Spatial experience
- The viewer stands outside looking through transparent double glass doors into a cavernous, utilitarian warehouse space dominated by an oversized consumer object.
- Composition rhythm
- Symmetrical front-facing composition framed by the mullions of the glass doorway, leading the eye straight to the central colored volume.
- Style reading
- Contemporary conceptual interior installation
- Program
- Art installation / exhibition space
- Perspective
- Interior Spatial
- Discipline
- interior