The ‘Grachtenhuis’ museum is a new, independent museum about the history of the canals of Amsterdam. Dutch Igloo was asked to design an interactive installation for one of their rooms. The high tech dollhouse was created in just a few months.
The dollhouse is a scale 1:12 copy of the historical building the museum in situated in. Each of the 24 rooms is decorated and has glass plates hidden in them. On these glass plates we projected short movies of people shot on a transparent background. When you look into the rooms it looks like the people are actually inside the decorated rooms.
Visitors can walk around the house and peek into all the rooms. Using their audio-tour they can listen to all the different stories that took place in the historical house the museum is located in.
The end result: a 1:12 version of the historical building the museum in located in. Each of the 24 rooms tell a story about the history of the building (copyright www.kossmanndejong.nl)
Visitors can walk around the house to explore all the stories projected in the rooms.
The house also includes a garden. Near every room numbers are shown that help you play the right soundtrack on your audio-tour. (copyright www.kossmanndejong.nl)
It looks like the postman just came to deliver the mail by bike. (copyright www.kossmanndejong.nl)
THE MAKING OF: Constructing the doll house
Constructing the doll house
Technical drawings of the actual house are also used to make the doll house
Front of the interactive doll house
Roof of the doll house under construction
Back of the interactive doll house
Filming the projected stories on green screen
Filming the projected stories on green screen
Custom made table for the doll house
Under construction mini-fashion workshop
Hatdesigner Berry Rutjes made a collection of mini-designer hats for the mini-fashion workshop.
Mini-fashion workshop with mini-designer hats and mini-designer clothes
Projection of the financiation of the Civil War which also really took place in the garden room of the museum.
Projection: Mini-birth at home in a 70s interior.
We also made dollhouse version of the dollhouse, scale 1:144 to place in the dollhouse.
Mini-meetingroom with mini-projection screen which can actually be used by plugging a USB-stick into the gutter of the dollhouse.
The museum is located at the Amsterdam canals
Installation at the museum.
The dollhouse was build out of seperate parts that could be taken apart en reinstalled easily.
