A12, Temporary pavillion, Kröller Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands, 2004

Finalist honourable mention for Gold Medal for Italian Architecture 2006, category Culture and Leisure

LAB is the first open air exhibition in the sculpture-park of the Kröller-Müller Museum.
The metaphor of the labyrinth, as a possible interpretative device to represent the contemporary urban condition, was the initial concept used for the development of the exhibition design. An outer corridor, a trench bounded by two walls covered in roughly cut poplar boards, defines a rectangle measuring 75 x 50 m.
The same narrow corridor clearly demarcates the precincts of the exhibition.
The works are contained inside several pavilions, which are concatenated by this peripheral circulation.

PH. A. Cimmino