- Plates of the gallery
Summer / autumn 2001
My second big design project besides the tile mosaic was the former gallery in the mainhall, where I even took over the project management. The Gallery is a truss construction covered with different plates to create a separation of the space in the mainhall and besides give the entire room a bit more of a space ship atmosphere. The old gallery, which you can see here, was not re-created in the RS20 after a refurbishment of the house in 2003, for the parts where heavily damaged on one hand and on the other hand, noboday really wanted to have them any more. Now the former gallery parts are used as decoration elements in the so called 'nerd area' in the basement of RS20.
Each part of the gallery consists of a press board, which was painted and decorated in different ways with all kinds of (electronic) scrap ("deco material"). Some parts were cut off, sticked together, screwed together or just mounted with a stapler. Finally, each segment got an air brush finish.
- Plate of the gallery with Mate
- The plates always had to be exactly measured so that they exactly fit onto the truss
- Truss onto which the plates were mounted
- The blue in this picture equals very exactly the original tint
During the construction phase - and also during the mounting phase - of the gallery parts, there were several bigger and smaller difficulties, e.g. because not all parts the had the same measures (although that should of course have been the target of the entire action). Accompanied by heavy discussions, there was finally and order found in which all the single elements should be mounted to the truss construction on the ceiling. Nevertheless, in practice, this order turned out to be impossible to conduct. So, under huge physical (and mental) commitment, the parts were 'somehow' mounted in the way they were fitting in that very moment - but in the end, nobody realized that anyway ;-)
And this is how the gallery looked like when illuminated:
