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Credit: Luke Hayes, courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London oung V&A, Design for Change, Design Gallery. She explains how the forms of these structures “respond to the roof of the original Brompton Boilers building” (referring to the iron-framed building used as temporary display space in the early years of the original V&A Museum), and are made of corrugated sheets of low-carbon hemp fibre panels, with sugar-based resin made entirely from agricultural waste. Young V&A, The Arcade, Play Gallery Credit: Luke Hayes, courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London Design Galleryįocusing on “big messages around sustainability”, Lambert says the Design Gallery comprises tabletop displays revealing the process behind sustainable, circular objects as well as two structures: The Factory and The Shed. Build It is a hands-on construction area in the gallery, which also has an arcade at the end with games targeted at visitors aged 10-14. The Mini Museum is a sensory space aimed at the 0-4 audience bracket, incorporating various textures, sounds and colours. Young V&A, Play Gallery, view across the Mini Museum. The entrance to the Mini Museum is a “den-like half cut cone” clad with marble and timber, in line with the Young V&A’s wider focus on materiality, she adds. Credit: David Parry, courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London Play Galleryĭesigned to be more of an “open landscape” with “more sight lines” across the space, the Play Gallery displays objects at a lower level and is defined by arrangements of benches and seating, says Lambert. Young V&A, Adventure Display, Imagine Gallery. Objects that children have collected and made are on display in the This Is Me section, alongside an interactive self-portrait gallery where children can take their picture and trace their face.

In the “surreal pink interior” space, display objects begin to “shift in scale” towards more “domestic items”, she adds. A smaller gallery within Imagine, the Adventure Gallery, features “scenic sky treatments” that intend to make visitors as if they’re outdoors, says Lambert, while the stage area “fits centrally in the gallery with soft, lush thick carpets”.

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Lambert describes the Imagine Gallery as “a series of room sets” with “different levels of environmental enclosure”. Credit: Luke Hayes, courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London Imagine Gallery Young V&A, Town Square with Feature Stair. The overall concept for the Young V&A interpretation design was to have “more colour, natural light, patterns and experiential elements”, according to Lambert. Lambert says AOC opted to use a monochrome palette in the square, allowing the “vivid range of colour” from the galleries to “leap through and create exciting visual connections”. A bench made from London Plane – the city’s most common tree – spans the perimeter of the Town Square. Credit: Luke Hayes, courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, LondonĪ key space to which AOC contributed is the central atrium called the Town Square, providing a “civic offering to the visitors”, says AOC director Gill Lambert.

Young V&A, Play Gallery including Sand Spinner. Another architecture practice, De Matos Ryan, worked on the fabric and organisation of the Victorian building. The studio was tasked with designing the visitor experience, including the new large-scale sign on the outside of the building, a reimagining of the 2006 extension, the welcome space and the three main galleries. East London architecture and design practice AOC has revealed its interpretation and exhibition design for the Young V&A, which is set to open this weekend (1 July).

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