NORD Architecture

Common Place is the second in a series of the Scottish Executive’s Architecture Initiative exhibitions. It opened in March 2003 in the Lighthouse and is currently touring Scotland. The design won the only award in the small projects category at the 2003 GIA Awards and most recently was awarded first prize in the exhibitions category and the Grand Prix award for best piece of design in any category at the Scottish Design Awards 2004.

The notion of travel and transportation informed the initial design decisions. The exhibition is conceived of as a series of packing cases that fold open to reveal illuminated displays. Contained within the cases is a range of high and low technology display formats including audio visual monitors, architectural models and aerial mapping devices.

Illuminated text panels and an appropriated bench seating system reference the ‘common place’ agenda of the exhibition and set the viewer in an environment that is in someway familiar like background noise or street furniture that we do not register.

www.common-place.com