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ROYAL ACADEMY of LONDON

Burlington Gardens of the Royal Academy is a listed Victorian building in the heart of London. A building that represents through its visual presence: classicism, equilibrium, rationality, symmetry, logic and wisdom. Host of University of London, other civil institutions and now of the Royal Academy, the building with its golden ratio proportions, neoclassical columns, grandiose staircase, statues of wise personalties and Palladian windows deployed repeatedly on the façade, is emitting gravity, significance, importance and cultural magnitude. Within this given context, it is quite challenging to surprise the visual serenity succession of balance and order. An immediate response was to introduce elements of impossibility, fantasy, illusion and paradox. The approach taken, positions the illogical against the rational. The element of surprise hidden between two surfaces, in the fascinating origamic paper structures, became a point of departure. Passing through the visualisation of mathematical concepts, repetition, tesselation and impossible structures. The resulting suggestion of three-dimensional objects is the consequence of perspectival illusions that challenge the limitations of our visual understanding. The modular shelving-display system can be used for commercial and exhibitory purposes in the given space.
ROYAL ACADEMY of LONDON
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ROYAL ACADEMY of LONDON

A display system designed for the Royal Academy of London.

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