Original thinking: Snøhetta reveals its relationship secrets
Snøhetta has descended upon Aut gallery in Innsbruck, Austria. The Norwegian architecture practice has built several social environments across the gallery spaces that encourage users to climb, lean and linger.
Site-specific installations of angular flooring, light boxes of landscapes and geometric timber cages have all been designed to activate people’s experiences of space and light. Titled ‘Relations’, the exhibition celebrates the fruitful partnerships between Snøhetta and its many collaborators, that can be seen across numerous projects during which expertise has been exchanged and innovations have been developed. Drawings, prototypes, models and photos are displayed side-by-side on archive tables exploring the depth of the relationships.
The exhibition plays with the relations between people and Snøhetta’s work, examining the interdisciplinary nature of the practice
The ‘social landscape’ Snøhetta has created at Austrian gallery Aut.
A custom-built wooden landscape shapes the visitors path as they move through the exhibition.
As well as the social landscapes, the exhibition also includes prototypes, models and photographs.
The high ceilings and columned space with framed windows at Aut provide Snøhetta with an interesting space to play with.
This part of the exhibition explores various Snøhetta collaborations.
INFORMATION
‘Snøhetta: Relations’ is on view until 7 October. For more information, visit the Aut website
ADDRESS
Aut
im Adambräu
Lois Welzenbacher Platz 1
6020 Innsbruck
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Harriet Thorpe is a writer, journalist and editor covering architecture, design and culture, with particular interest in sustainability, 20th-century architecture and community. After studying History of Art at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) and Journalism at City University in London, she developed her interest in architecture working at Wallpaper* magazine and today contributes to Wallpaper*, The World of Interiors and Icon magazine, amongst other titles. She is author of The Sustainable City (2022, Hoxton Mini Press), a book about sustainable architecture in London, and the Modern Cambridge Map (2023, Blue Crow Media), a map of 20th-century architecture in Cambridge, the city where she grew up.
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