Throwback Tunnel | Brigada

We created an exhibition which covers 2100 square meters in total, spanning the full 350 m of the main tunnel hall, including 200 m of its passageways. The foundation for the entire spatial design was concept of time travel and engaging individual historical stories. A net-like steel structure is installed in the tunnel like a tunnel inside the tunnel, the surface of which is partially empty, with an idea to take up the content of precisely those individual stories in time. The remaining surface is filled up with reproductions of historical artefacts.

The passageways have been turned into interactive spaces featuring the specificities of the period they happen to be in. One passageway is dedicated to Nikola Tesla, showing his discoveries. The other passageway has become a war bunker, whereas the third is a tavern from the 1960’s in which the visitors can dance to the music of the time. In order to see the whole exhibition, in the central part, the visitors have to walk through a dimmed, rainy section of the tunnel representing a sort of cleansing and a break for personal reflexion after a turbulent period of war. In the end, when exiting the tunnel to enter into the future, everyone can send their own digital text message that will also become a part of the exhibition.