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AF–05 · Paris, France · 2024
Drift Gallery
An exhibition room designed to travel.
ExhibitionBrand
A compact gallery packs into a small transport volume and becomes a neutral surface for graphics, products and projected work.
ClientGalerie Meridien
LocationParis, France
Year2024
CategoryExhibition, Brand
Drift Gallery answers a logistical question with an architectural one: how small can a serious exhibition room travel? The client, a Paris gallery, needed a space that could appear inside fairs, courtyards and warehouses across a season.
The room is a 145-square-metre rectangular volume with softened corners, built from a tensioned double-skin membrane on a folding frame. Everything — frame, skin, floor, lighting — packs into 6 cubic metres and travels in a single van.
Inside, the gallery is deliberately quiet: continuous white surfaces, an even 4000K light level, and no visible fixings. The architecture withdraws so the exhibited work sets the tone.
An exhibition room designed to travel.
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07Technical specification
| Floor area | 145m² |
|---|---|
| Capacity | 180visitors |
| Maximum height | 5.4m |
| Installation time | 0.5days |
| Transport volume | 6m³ |
| Reuse count | 7assemblies |
- Floor area
- 145m²
- Capacity
- 180visitors
- Maximum height
- 5.4m
- Installation time
- 0.5days
- Transport volume
- 6m³
- Reuse count
- 7assemblies
01Exterior
Exterior
The outer skin accepts printed graphics that can be swapped per venue, so the same architecture carries a different identity at each stop without producing new structure.
02Interior
Interior
Between the two skins runs a 300-millimetre service cavity holding lighting, power and climate ducting. The inner skin stays perfectly clean: no cables, no tracks, no shadows.
03Light and atmosphere
Light and atmosphere
Light passes through the inner membrane from the cavity, producing a shadowless field measured at 750 lux at hanging height — gallery standard, without a single visible fixture.
04Plan
Plan
A simple rectangle with radiused corners and a single offset entrance. The proportions follow a 3:2 ratio tested against standard exhibition hanging sequences.
05Process
Process
The folding frame was developed through four full-scale prototypes. Assembly is documented as a 40-step illustrated sequence that a two-person crew completes in half a day.
Credits
- Spatial design
- Aeriform Studio
- Frame engineering
- Mecanique Legere, Nantes
- Client
- Galerie Meridien
07Contact
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