'Trace Room' by Atelier ChanChan

Friday Late at the Victorian & Albert Museum

London

Friday Late Nights at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London have created a wonderful venue for younger designers to exhibit within the hallow halls of the museum. Contemporary design interventions juxtaposed against the antiquities of the spaces make it hard for a designer to resist. This past month Atelier Chan Chan wowed spectators with their work entitled 'Trace Room'.

From Atelier Chan Chan

Trace Room is an installation commissioned by the Victoria and Albert Museum for their Friday Late on 29 June: Unbuilt De/ constructing architecture.

Exploring the de-materialisation of architectural elements which traditionally define the boundaries of a room, the installation begins to erase and explode its thresholds; suggesting its

About Atelier ChanChan

Atelier ChanChan is a practice based in London, operating in the realms be- tween art and architecture; it was founded in 2010 by Cambridge scholar and AA scholarship graduate Zoe Chan.

The practice takes a phenomenological approach to its work; aiming to create unique and beautiful spaces within the city. We investigate the relationship between architecture and emotion and how material, space, light and form can be manipulated to create new, imaginative, experience-driven architectures. Often interested in the de-materialisation of architectural elements and thresh- olds; much of our architecture and installations experiment with transparency, scale, and the perception of space and its limits.
Our work spans across architectural projects such as galleries and houses to,installations, interiors and concept design . Current projects which dem- onstrate our approach include: Secret Garden House, a private house in Dul- wich which blends interior and exterior through a series of indoor and outdoor rooms and Trace Room, an installation and space at the Victoria and Albert Museum carved out from layers of stretched cord lines.

Atelier Chan Chan