Samt & Seide – An Exhibition

Exhibition project for the Lisbon Architecture Triennale

Samt & Seide is an installation designed for the 1st Lisbon Architecture Triennale, held at Cordoaria.

The exhibition presents a selection of architectural works and projects through a spatial installation of suspended fabrics. Varying in opacity, transparency, weight, texture, colour and movement, the fabrics divide the exhibition into distinct spaces and atmospheres. The resulting labyrinthine configuration alternately reveals and conceals the exhibited content, shaping the visitor’s experience throughout the exhibition.

The installation opens onto a café and a small auditorium, providing spaces for gathering and discussion.

The project draws on Café Samt & Seide, the seminal installation by Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich presented in Berlin in 1927, reinterpreting textiles as an architectural device to define space, movement and perception.