Armémuseum Testsalong
Testsalongen is a temporary platform that invites the museum and its visitors to explore what the Army Museum of the future could be. The proposal builds on the strengths of the Museum’s building, collections, and experimental programme, with the aim of activating the entrance floor and broadening the museum’s audience.
Love Di Marco & Grip + Torarp proposed a light framework that acts as a temporary buffer between the building and its content. Wrapping the renovated building in a thin layer of material, reused from previous exhibitions, the space is at once protected and transformed into a continous construction site that invites participation and initiates new conversations between visitors, the museum, and its collections.
Reused sheet materials, metal screens and fragments from previous exhibitions form a flexible grid of objects and content, bound together by a custom connector. Leftover material is temporarily bundled together to provide seating, workshop tables, and signage, all framed by a delicate sprinkler curtain that gently wraps the ruin that is the museum.
Rather than presenting a linear narrative the space becomes an open grid where every visit is unique whether you pass through in a minute, take part for an hour, or stay for the whole day.
Project by
@lovedimarco &
@griptorarp for
@armemuseum
Communication, signage and visual identity:
@studio_kollektivetlivet
Stage by
@pal_r
Photography by
@__victorjohansson
Thanks to
@oskaredengreen @ingmaripagenkemper @jennifornorstrom @revox0023 @arenatextil @elsasodergren , Hannes Norberg, Siri von Malmborg,
@hakan_lidbo