THE WIENER LIBRARY

ALL THINGS STUDIO, LONDON

I helped All Things Studio in pushing forward the design stage for The Wiener Holocaust Library. We were given the brief to tranform the main, ground floor exhibition room. Focussing particularly in the showcase design, I worked with precedents to generate ideas and provided small sketches and visualisation to present our ideas to the clients.

In the showcases we had the idea of magnetic shelves that were moveable to allow the library flexibility on how to display their documents and artefacts

Prints & Drawings Gallery at the British Museum, London.

This precedent shows the flexible and engaging ways to display documents.

It also shows how lighting can be used, with a more subdued material palette, still bringing attention to the exhibition material.

A dark background and good lighting allow paper based objects to stand out. This was important as The Weiner Library displayed mostly documents.

Modular demountable angled back panels to allow a range of display options. (1) Steep back panel that can be used with the magnetic shelves to display documents, graphics, and 2D art. (2) A shallower angled plinth (3) Can be used to display larger objects such as books. The back panel can also be removed entirely giving a flat base.