INS 025 Scent Cabinet OFICINAA 2015
Header image:
Pegelhäuschen Ingolstadt
© Jann Aversweser
Text: OFICINAA
The Scent Cabinet was designed to celebrate the Danube Day, June 21. Installed in the decommissioned gauge station along the Danube, the installation celebrates the various scents of the immediate alluvial forest. These scents were produced and made by OFICINAA while testing various processes of cooking, distillation and extraction of the essence. Inside of the cabinet, ten perfume bottles and specimens hang from the ceiling, inviting visitors to smell the various ephemeral smells of the floodplain and to identify the botanical selection. Behind the essences, a sensory map of the site lines the walls of the cabinet. This map, created with gathered data on humidity, temperature, sound and wind speed, visualizes a snapshot of the sensorial subtleties located on site. Plus, it captures the atmospheric environments of the forest and the micro-climates that generated the botanical ingredients of the exhibition. The surface of the floor is gravel and, as the visitor walks in, there is an immediate arrest of attention. The sound changes as the perception of the various aromas in the air appear to the public.
© OFICINAA
© Jann Aversweser, OFICINAA
© Jann Aversweser, OFICINAA
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INS 025 Scent Cabinet OFICINAA 2015
Header image: Pegelhäuschen Ingolstadt © Jann Aversweser
Text: OFICINAA
The Scent Cabinet was designed to celebrate the Danube Day, June 21. Installed in the decommissioned gauge station along the Danube, the installation celebrates the various scents of the immediate alluvial forest. These scents were produced and made by OFICINAA while testing various processes of cooking, distillation and extraction of the essence. Inside of the cabinet, ten perfume bottles and specimens hang from the ceiling, inviting visitors to smell the various ephemeral smells of the floodplain and to identify the botanical selection. Behind the essences, a sensory map of the site lines the walls of the cabinet. This map, created with gathered data on humidity, temperature, sound and wind speed, visualizes a snapshot of the sensorial subtleties located on site. Plus, it captures the atmospheric environments of the forest and the micro-climates that generated the botanical ingredients of the exhibition. The surface of the floor is gravel and, as the visitor walks in, there is an immediate arrest of attention. The sound changes as the perception of the various aromas in the air appear to the public.
© OFICINAA
© Jann Aversweser, OFICINAA
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