reported on muij Omy blog: http://blog.omy.sg/muij/archives/188
National Museum of Singapore
Come-in art exhibition design Contest, April 2009.
Merit Award goes to Designer-Artist Tan Haur
Synopsis: This fixture creates a typical experience for visitors to feel the compact space and tighter gap between flats built by Housing Development Board nowadays in Singapore mainland. The semi-circular spheres made by clear acrylic material are to provide a viewing window within a confined space to simulate operator’s control room with viewing screen inside a military submarine or tanker; this is to create a visual tension between participants who are inside the four spheres. The internal space of the cubicles was painted with blue tone wavy- camouflage pattern to symbolize our island country is surrounded by ocean. At the centre portion of the cubicle tunnel, it was furnished with a typical HDB bomb shelter ventilation metal plate to create a sense of safety precaution as well as insecurity of a nation..
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