Visual image of the exhibit in context

By lighting the sculpture from within, the shadows fall onto the perimeter walls. This makes the person viewing the exhibit almost feel inside the exhibit itself with shadows all around them.

Despite being made from MDF as opposed to the more structurally sound Plywood, the bench could easily support people using it.

The finished bench

Paul nailing together the bench

The design made construction easy. The bench is made from a series of 50mm MDF strips cut at varying lengths.

We made a series of test models in the design process

Piranesi's book has direct links to ancient roman engineering. This image is of his anaylsis of the Aqueducts.

Analysing how placement of exhibits in a space effects weather people look at them. In a building that isn't dedicated to looking at exhibits, people are less likely to go out of their way to look at something.