Manthey Kula was commissioned by the Norwegian National Museum to develop a concept for some kind of realization of Sverre Fehn’s un-built competition proposal of a breathing space for the Oska World Fair in 1970.
Fehn’s proposal of a breathing structure where images of Scandinavian nature was to be projected on the expanding and contracting walls did not win the competition and was never realized.
The project is a result of a long design process where important questions concerning the solution of the built piece and it’s relationship to the initial competition entry had to be addressed and sorted out: the questions concerned technical issues, matters of form and material, geometry, size and siting, and eventually that of exhibition content.
The installation on show is not Sverre Fehn’s project for the Osaka World fair, but a contemporary installation based on, and tributing his idea.
It is a structure consisting of an airlock building and an inflated, moving space. All details are developed for the installation to be dismounted and re-erected. There are no objects on show – only space.
Images courtesy of Manthey Kula
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