"The Cubet" is a project developed in the studio "Oberlichtsaal Gallery" with the colloboration of Jannette Sesselmann, Olaf Kammler, Iremnur Tokac, Mu Chen, Kan Feng, Shuyan Chen.

1. Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
CUBETExhibitionSystem

2. Henry van der Velde (*1863 †1957)
Kunstgewerbeschule Weimar (1908)
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3. The origins of Bauhaus can be trace
back to the 19th century. It had begun
to be developed as a response to the
devastating consequences of Industrial
Revolution as initiating a shift in the
manufactured products and product
design, later it would be enhanced to
the way of art and design education.
Bauhaus has a huge impact on modern
art, design and architecture as developing
a merge of machine production and arts
and crafts. Celebrating the hundred years
of Bauhaus, we would like to emphasize
the close relations between design and
industry, which Bauhaus achieved most
successfully, with designing a modular
exhibition system which enables a variety
of spatial properties for different contexts.
Bauhaus-University
Weimar | history
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4. Henry van der Velde (*1863 †1957)
Hauptgebäude Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (1911)
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5. Henry van de Velde, the designer of
the iconic building of the Grand Ducal
Saxon Academy of Fine Arts -today
known as Bauhaus University- in
Weimar, emitted his architectural design
approach to the world. He believed
in that the structural components
of a building should be designed as
ornaments, they should give a character
to the building, yet to be necessary to
the structure. His Oberlichtsaal Gallery
was evaluated through this approach
and taken as an initial background. In
that background, it has been designed
a structural system that provides many
spatial possibilities which intends to
demonstrate the togetherness of
design and structure. Therefore, the
inspiration of Bauhaus is not taken
literally, but it is taken conceptually.
The system attempts to take a step
forward from the Bauhaus methodology
of designing the elements of design
to another stage of designing the
flexibility as well. Flexibility is a crucial
issue in exhibition design responding
to the demand of differentiated space
for a huge variety of art works. Hence,
realization of the system would push the
exhibition design further by offering a
great deal of capabilities of displaying.
Exhibition 2019
Oberlichtsaal
Realisation of
the Cubet-System
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Cubet Concepts

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9. Cubet is a system provides many display
possibilities which allows designers to
create various attractive space to exhibit
art works. The profile has a special
design offering a hidden space for
infrastructure inside of the frame and a
sophisticated detailing for assembling
different construction components.
There is a cut out inside of the
frame for embedding infrastructural
elements, which the exhibition might
need, such as electricity, sensors and
LEDs. Hence, in case of the using
such elements, they will not be
exposed and disturb the exhibition.
The railing detail enables panels, LCD
screens, reflective panels, translucent
panels to be assembled inside of the
frame and/or on the frame. These panel
elements could be used as information
screens, light source, exhibition room for
the art work, installation components
and other to imagine possibilities.
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The Exhibition System
The Cubet gives the opportunity to
construct a three dimensional grid
system that the curators/exhibition
designers could play around with spatial
possibilities. The exhibition space and
the furniture elements inside of it are
generated by the composition of the
frame and the additional elements,
which is mentioned above.
In conclusion, the system is a competent
example of adaptable design.
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11. The Oberlichtsaal gallery is intended
to study conceptually in order to create
a topography. The study is taken as
an interpretation of Oberlichtsaal
gallery based on a shadow mapping
of the existing structure. The aim is to
Concept
Shadow Walk
translate the features of Oberlichtsaal
gallery into an architectonic
landscape as an exhibition space.
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13. An exhibition hall constructed as a
composition of the panels and the Cubet
frames are assembled together. There
are LEDs embedded on the frames.
The panels, which are movable in each
frame cube, are connected to LEDs with
a circuit. The light fades up and down
based on the movement of the panel.
Hence, visitors are able to control the
light through a physical interaction.
Concept
Light Interaction
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15. The duplicated reflection of the mirror
shows a new way of a media which
is virtual mass produced. It generates
a new space of augmented reality.
Concept
Mirror Concept
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Cubet Technical Explanation

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Technical
Explaination
The Cubet profile contains of two
parts which are symmetrical. Thus,
the production of the pieces would
be easy and fast in means of mass
production. In spite of the particular mass
production process of the sophisticated
profiles, the system is set up by using
the standard construction components
Connector Column
such as, M10, M6 and M5 screws and
the standard size for RGB LED stripes.
The Cubet, also, provides a variety
of possibilities to use the products
which are available on market for
constructing an exhibition space based
on the different desired conditions.

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Column
»»long-drawn Aluminium profile
»»1.5 mm wall thickness
»»two symmetric parts for one column
»»attachment holes (M10 | M6 | M5)
»»notch for Add-on plug-ins
Column | Two Site Views (Rotated 45°)

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Connector
»»Injection Molding with
Glasfiber Polyamin
»»2.0 mm wall thickness
Technical Detail

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Module Catalogue
CUBET
Sysstem
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AddOns for Cubet
+
ScrewFixer (F01)
+
ScrewFixer (F01)
+
Screw
+
Fixer (F01) Sliding Rail
(SR01)
or
Screw
or
Fixer (F01) Sliding Rail
(SR01)
Light Cover
(LC01)
V01
Panel
V02
Screen
V03
Light
V04
Interactive
V05
Furniture
V...
Creativity

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RGB LED Stripes
Mat
erial
Panel
Panel
Device Box /Case
Fabric Metal
Wood Glass
on Market POSSIBILITY
...
Screen
LCD
Projection Display
Touchscreen
Poster Display
Cover (Metal, Plastic, Fabric ...)
Display Panel
Poster Panel
Documentation Panel
Mirror Effect
Cover Panels
Movie Screen
Video Installation
Touch Interaction
Illuminate of Frame System
(Column & Cap of Connector)
Light Spots System
Illuminate of Exhibition & Event Space
Light Panel System
Illuminate of Exhibition & Event Space
Case for Supporting Media Application Parts
Functional Exhibition Space
Bar & Cafe Space
Furniture
Light
Illumination
Cable
Cable
Cable
+
Cable
+
Cable
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+
+
+
Stagelight
Projector
Computer
Arduino

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Cubet Mockup
BOQ
Material Size (mm) Quantity min. € max. €
Connector Brass
(Prototype)
45x45x45 8 5 30
Wood 45x45x45 68 0.15 0.25
Aluminium
(Prototype)
45x45x455 12 10 1350
Wood 45x45x455 136 3 5
Insection
LED Waterproof 455(Stripe) 8 10 15
Panel Mirror 455x455x10 9 10 30
Wood 455x455x20 5 5 15
Plastic 455x455x10 4 10 20
Total 820 17’700

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Research & Prototyping
of the Aluminium Profil

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Protoype 01
Protoype 03
Protoype 04
Protoype 05
Protoype 02

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Supervision
Prof. Bernd Rudolf, Building Design / A+U
Prof. Andreas Kästner, Presentation Methodology / A+U
Prof. Dr. Jens Geelhaar, Interface Design / M / Vertr. Prof. Michael Markert
Dr.-Ing. Sabine Zierold
Project Participants
Janette Sesselmann
Olaf Kammler
Iremnur Tokac
Mu Chen
Kan Feng
Shuyan Chen
“Oberlichtsaal Gallery“
Project Modul WS 2015/16
Project Sponsors