Acciona integrates the audiovisual systems of the Hajj exhibition held at the Museum of Islamic Art

The Museum of Islamic Art exhibits a collection of sacred contents in an innovative and immersive environment thanks to the audiovisual system and projection solutions that Acciona has installed.

Acciona Productions and Design fly to Doha to get an exhibition up and running. This time it is the Hajj, The Journey Through Art, a trip to the heart of Islam made in the Museum of Islamic Art that was inaugurated in the past 9 of October and that will remain open until the 5 January 2014. It has been the company in charge of carrying out a comprehensive project that harmonizes a sequence of sacred contents under a state-of-the-art design. This set is materialized in an installation that brings together more than 200 pieces from the most important museums and institutions in the world, which, as stars, guide visitors from start to finish.

These art objects are encompassed in circular spaces that symbolize the stages and seasons that pilgrims cross before prostrating themselves before the Ka ́aba. The scenographic light, so characteristic in the projects of Acciona Producciones y Diseño, unifies an almost magical atmosphere, where artistic objects become treasures that convey their origins and meanings.

The great multimedia revelation of this new exhibition, developed by a team composed of more than 30 Professional, is the circular projection around the monumental textiles that cover the walls of the sacred Rock. It collects the flow of those witnesses of Islam who comply with one of the basic pillars of their religion. The room is filled with prayers, Prayers and Prayers; in this way an exhibition installation full of mysticism is humanized.

The project is part of the concept of Cultural Engineering with which Acciona values cultural wealth, social and economic of a given place through technological innovation and sustainable development. nevertheless, when choosing the company's project, the QMA (Qatar Museums Authority) of Doha has valued "respect for its minimalist aesthetic essence where exhibited objects prevail over aesthetic stridencies, but without neglecting the inclusion of avant-garde technological and aesthetic elements".

Image and sound

For the realization of this project, seven LED screens have been used 32 inches in which play LOOPING AV productions and 14 digital frames of 15 inches that are attached to the lecterns. Projections are made from six teams Panasonic PT-DZ770, located in the Ka'aba area, that project on six screens. All this is controlled and managed from an interior technical room where all the equipment is arranged: Racks, PC, software Dataton Watchout, Crestron, Etc… Also used is a seventh overhead video projector Panasonic PT-DZ770, hanging from the ceiling, to project on a circular table.

To provide the hajj exhibition, The Journey Through Art of the ambient sound according to the objects on display, have been suspended from the ceiling and distributed through the corridors that go to the Loudspeaker speakers JBL control 24 CT and 26 CT. This infrastructure also has two Earphones Molitor for the visitor's individual use.

Acciona's presence in the East

Acciona Producciones y Diseño has been responsible for the design and execution of two more exhibitions in Qatar, one of them also at the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, dedicated to the diplomat Hans Ludwig von Kuefstein, and another, The Art of Travel: Bartholomäus Schachman (1559-1614) at Al-Riwaq Hall, under the supervision of the Orientalist Museum.

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