Design principles of interior artifacts with purpose of reducing intervention in the context: Redefinition of temporary exhibition of contemporary artworks in historic buildings

Temporary exhibition of contemporary artworks in historic building, like any other interior projects, is a proportion between subject or artifact on display and the context of design. The important parameters in this proportion are: Limitation on intervention in the context, space restriction and relying on interior architecture elements. Organizing and presenting the artifacts in any kind of building are related to these factors directly. Specifically, in historic buildings, these aspects of works will be more important since the issue of intervention rate- in order to preserve and display the building’s values- will be added. Therefore, the goal in this article was considered to be providing design principles for the interior artifacts to reduce interventions in the context of design and its purpose was considered to be redefining the nature of the interior design artifacts in temporary exhibition of contemporary artworks in historic buildings. So, the article’s main question was stated as following: how can we provide the  temporary exhibition of contemporary artifacts relying on capabilities of design artifacts with lower intervention in historic building? The answer of this question was conducted in three stages as following:
In first section, in order to determine the characteristics of existing artifacts, the existing concepts and methods in similar cases, were analyzed. This work was done among four buildings (Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Iranian Artists’ House, Iran Glass and Ceramic Museum and Moghadam’s House/ Museum) as representatives of various types of work in the interior spaces. In this section, the effort was based on having the conceptual models of each representative.
In second section, in order to find the nature of design artifacts, the objectives and affordances of artifacts in the exhibition, based on an abstract model of the artifacts’ affordances, were surveyed. In this regard, the Gero’s commands were referred in conceptual foundations of design. Therefore, we could define the abstract model of the artifacts’ nature.
The third section was allocated to describe architecture and redefining the artifact in order to construct these artifacts and convert their abstract model into objectively model, in construction’s concepts. In this regard, the Ulrich’s commands referred in production processes. Finally, the combination of modular architecture and integrated design was redefined to these artifacts and Features of configuration process and their components were determined.
Finally, based on the outcome of these three stages, the artifacts were proposed when displaying artifacts instead of intervention in context, with their adaptive nature, will keep the values in historic building. On this basis a redefinition of design were obtained in temporary exhibition of contemporary artifacts in historic building.