ReOrder is a site-specific fabric installation at the Brooklyn Museum‘s 10,000 square-foot Great Hall originally designed by Beaux-Arts architects, McKim, Mead and White. Designed by Situ Studio of Brooklyn, the installation takes cues from folding processes in textiles and unravels into series of fabric canopies with integrated seats that enhanced the profile of the existing columns, and in turn serve as a place for visitors to congregate and relax during museum events.
The installation is on view until January 2012.
Clips on the making of reOrder:
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Concept studies and sketches
taking cues from the structure of 19th century hoop skirts
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Fabric gathering studies
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The Architecture
Floor plan
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Fabric assembly
Fabric is gathered at the skeletal rig installed around each column
the result of the gathered fabric
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Museum photography by Keith Sirchio
Other images courtesy of Situ Studio
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