All twenty-two entries, A–Z

B

• 05Bay schedulingForty contractors share one loading bay across a fixed window. The schedule is the real design constraint.

C

• 02Cable runsPlanned before the deck goes down, because afterwards they are inaccessible.
• 02Carpet, and what it hidesThe cheapest surface and the one that shows every seam.
• 03Colour and gradeHall light is green. Everything you bring is corrected against it.

D

• 06Dismantle orderStrike is the build in reverse under worse conditions: everybody leaving at once, power going off, and a hard deadline on the empty hall.

F

• 05Flight casesBuilt around the object, wheeled, numbered, and stored for the whole show.

M

• 01Modular versus customRented system framing is fast, standard and visibly standard. Custom joinery looks like nothing else and has to be stored or skipped afterwards.

P

• 04Paint and laminateOne can be touched up on site; the other cannot.
• 05Plant and forkliftsBooked by the hour, shared, and the reason nothing heavy is ever hand-carried.
• 03Power and the bayOrdered in advance by the kilowatt, and never quite where you wanted it.
• 04Print at sizeArtwork proofed on a desk and printed at four metres shows every compression artefact and every millimetre of misalignment.

R

• 02Ramps and edgesA raised deck is a trip hazard and an access requirement at the same time.
• 03Reading at ten metresA stand competes with a lit hall. Contrast, not brightness, is what makes a product read from the aisle.
• 06Reuse and storageWhat is worth keeping is decided by volume, not by cost.
• 03Rigging from aboveHanging points are booked, limited and expensive, which is why so much lighting ends up on the structure instead.

T

• 04The seamPanel joints are the first thing a visitor's eye finds.
• 01TolerancesHall floors are not flat and walls are not square. Everything adjustable, everywhere.
• 01Trussing, and what it carriesOverhead structure carries light, banners and sometimes nothing but the appearance of structure. Loadings are the part nobody eyeballs.
• 01Two days up, one day downThe whole discipline follows from the schedule. A structure that takes a week to build cannot exist here, so everything is modular, bolted, numbered and designed to come apart in the reverse order it went together — and the drawing has to say so.

V

• 04Vinyl and filmApplied wet or dry, and the difference decides whether bubbles are fixable.

W

• 06WasteCarpet and printed graphics are the two things almost never used twice.
• 02Why raise the floorA deck exists to hide cable. Once it exists it also defines the stand's edge and how people step onto it.