6 Creative Ways to Utilize Temporary Walls in Event Design
For years event designers have already successfully used temporary partitions when preparing display venues. The biggest problem with the older type of partitions is that they always look like partitions and don’t blend in with the permanent architecture. With state-of-the-art new technology, however, manufacturers can now use solid materials to manufacture interim walls which, when you look at them, are indistinguishable from regular ones. This feature opens up a lot of possibilities. Let’s briefly define modern non-permanent panels and then discuss 6 creative ways to utilise these new generation temporary materials when designing the outlay of a venue.
More about modular panels
The newest prefabricated modular wall panels
- look just like the real ones but aren’t attached to the ceiling or floor by any screws, and
- they can be moved around, and/or completely removed afterwards without damaging the ceiling or the floor.
Interim panels can be ordered
- either as tongue-and-groove panels to create a continuous surface, or
- as interlocking panels with which the installer can create flawless panel-to-panel alignment.
Non-permanent panels can transform an open space into anything needed, from a wedding space to an exhibition area.
Ways to use temporary dividers
Six ways to utilise temporary walls in Australia and elsewhere are the following:
1. Create depth
The designer can use them to create the illusion of depth. By using them cleverly at the sides of a stall and using dramatic lighting effects at the back, a space can look much larger than it actually is. The effect will impress visitors. Designers can enhance the depth illusion by adding decorative art to the interim materials
2. Isolate a space
Sometimes, instead of the illusion of “enlarging” an area, there is the need to “minimise” a space to emphasise a specific smaller space in the larger setup. Non-permanent partitions are ideal to create focal areas within a large space. With the correct placement, visitors’ attention can consciously and unconsciously be directed to what the designer intends to be the main point of interest in the exhibition.
3. Gallery walls
Temporary partitions utilised as gallery walls give event designers the opportunity to move whole structures, with items already exhibited on them. The end result looks exactly as a permanent gallery panel. Visitors will not see a difference between the use of permanent or interim gallery materials.
4. Block off areas
Event designers can decide how and why they want to use temporary materials to block off areas. They will always look “permanent” whether they are used to block off part of a vendor stall to be used as a workspace or create a new room for a specific activity. With modular walls, designers can block off restricted areas in such a way that it seems as if the venue has been built like that. Organisers can do away with ugly barriers around restricted areas.
5. Control the flow of people
When event designers put loose barriers in place to control the flow of people, visitors often just remove the barriers. With modern temporary, but solid, partitions it is not possible because they look permanent and part of the original structure. Venue organisers use them to create “passages” to guide the flow of people through the event space. The visitors are helped to visit all the vendor stalls without causing congestion in popular areas.
6. Set up professional-looking vendor booths
With solid partitions, the event designer can create vendor booths in the exhibition area which look permanently built and not like flimsy, badly designed stalls. The modular panels enhance the illusion of a permanent exhibition. Unlike exhibitions with many small vendor booths, each different in style from another in one big area, modern temporary materials make it possible to create vendor booths complimenting each other but simultaneously allow the vendors to create personalised spaces to interact with visitors.
Conclusion
State-of-the-art technology enables manufacturers to provide interior designers with non-permanent walls in Australia which, when you look at them, are indistinguishable from regular walls. This feature opens up a lot of possibilities for event designers.
