JULIUS.26_A: THE VISUAL VOID
CHART ART FAIR 2015 launched an architecture competition aiming at talented students from three Nordic schools of architecture. The students were invited to design six pavilions for Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s courtyard. The pavilions housed the restaurants of CHART GASTRONOMY.

Bjarke Ingels, architect and founder of BIG, Rolf Hay, designer and founder of HAY, and Dorte Foss judged the competition.The competition was launched in partnership with HAY and FOSS. The judges chose 6 winning pavilions, and out of them THE VISUAL VOID got 2nd prize.
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THE ART becomes exhibited by its surrounding void. It is the final element - reluctant of its process and its creator. It is stripped, as increased by its spatial setting.

THE ARCHITECTURE encloses the void. It is the threshold which frames, thought its compliment lies in the space in between. The space in which one can enter. In this commentary the architecture is seen merely as a definition of the void. A canvas for exhibiting not the art but the usage itself. The architectural elements frames become the frame and the backdrop, though demolishing the expected spatial relation through a juxtaposition of geometrical shapes.The function is the architecture - and through it, the function becomes the art. Through its shifting composition, the spectator becomes the one exhibited.

Project designed by Thea Orderud and Christopher Fischlein
Team: Jens Vium Skaarup, Johan Mumm Sylvest, Kristoffer Kodam, Michael Wolsing, Iben Enevoldsen, Mikkel Møller Roesdahl and Bendik Herdlevær Støckert

All photos © Hampus Per Berndtson