The “Anairousis lead shot factory” in the press.
The factory Anairousis, with the 20 meter tall cooling tower, functioned from 1889 as a “lead shot” (hunting pellets) factory. The building was transformed into a museum with minimal adjustments.
The objective of the project was to create an experience driven museum, which is achieved with media technologies next to the original tools: 3d animation with sound reproducing the falling of lead pellets in water, a video screen displaying the production process inside the tower, the voice of a worker -in a side room- who narrates the stages of production, explanatory texts and the impressive way of sorting: the pellets where placed on a glass ramp. The round rolled quickly into a pot. The defective, “the whack” as they called them, rolled in different directions.
The museum received a “praise” for “artistic intervention” (εικαστική παρέμβαση) at the 11th Panhellenic Congress of Architects, which was organized by the “Panhellenic Union of Architects”. www.sadas-pea.gr
This animation is screened on a wall inside the tower, reproducing the falling of lead pellets in water.
In the press:
Credits
Supervision and coordination
Kostis Mpitzanis
Director of ΚΕ.ΤΕ.ΠΟ-I.M.E.
Museological design and text supervision
Persefoni Karampati
Historian-Mouseologist
Architectural-museological design and supervision
Erato Koutsoudaki
Architect-mouseologist
Visual supervision and audiovisual production
LineaDesign
Recovery-maintenance of equipment
Batholomeos Rigoutsos
Old machinery and tool maintenance and recovery
laboratory of ΚΕ.ΤΕ.ΠΟ.
Text translations
Ismini Xliova
Collaborators
Myriam Marouli
student of Department of Product
and Systems Design Engineering,
University of the Aegean
