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Collective Paper Aesthetics designs and develops audience engagement materials and STEAM education resources in the form of pop-up architecture and furnishing.

Who we are

Noa Haim is an architectural designer based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Following a presentation of her graduation work at the London Festival of Architecture in 2008, Haim established her cultural entrepreneurship and design studio Collective Paper Aesthetics.

Collective Paper Aesthetics designs and develops audience engagement materials and STEAM education resources in the form of pop-up architecture and furnishing. The studio offers a unique experience merging mathematical expertise, hands-on engineering, and universal design as Placemaking.

Among the studio clients are MUDAM Luxembourg, National Gallery Singapore, Kidspace Children's Museum, ICA Miami, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, and more.

Frozen Forms

020 MUDAM GO!

The Frozen Forms, a six-month exhibition at the Anchorage Museum, explored the morphology of Alaska’s winter landscape. The exhibition and its hands-on educational resources incorporated reusable materials and a DIY approach, reflecting the spirit of the North. "Here in Anchorage, we really embrace the idea of design as a way of having conversations, as a way of engaging people, as a way of engaging communities," explained the Museum’s Director/CEO, Julie Decker.

This exhibition and its public programs were made possible to the generous support of Dutch Culture USA

Watch Anchorage Museum’s Director/CEO, Julie Decker, in conversation with Noa Haim and Dezeen magazine.

Location: Anchorage, AK

Use case: 6-month exhibition and hands-on activity

Team: Francesca Du Brock, Jonny Hayes and Jim Kohl

Photography: Anchorage Museum

Year(s): 2024 - 2025

Weight: 570kg

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MUDAM GO! was initially designed for MUDAM – The Contemporary Art Museum of Luxembourg to interpret the work of artist Charlotte Posenenske with school classes and the public in 2020. The modular system is constructed from cubes and heart prisms, which allow both complex and simple creations to be made

Kunstsilo

040 Kunstsilo-kulen

A giant, silo-like pop-up space celebrating the opening of the new museum building with families and young audiences. The giant cylinder features 112 Kunstsilo-kulen — 448 cardboard cutouts. Each "ball" is crafted from four identical cardboard pieces that interlock seamlessly from within. The shape of the individual units, as well as their configuration into a cylinder and the perforations, are inspired by the former grain silo building, which is now the new home of the museum.

Experience the Kunstsilo-kulen from October 18th to 25th at Festival De Betovering in The Hague, NL.

Location: Anchorage, AK

Use case: 6-month exhibition and hands-on activity

Team: Francesca Du Brock, Jonny Hayes and Jim Kohl

Photography: Anchorage Museum

Year(s): 2024 - 2025

Weight: 570kg

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The "Kunstsilo-kulen" is a hands-on, DIY modular system designed and developed for the newly opened Kunstsilo museum. The resulting polyhedron, known as a rhombicuboctahedron, features 8 triangular faces and 16 square faces. These polyhedrons can be creatively assembled both vertically and horizontally, at 45° and 90° angles. This model is available in 2 sizes and 3 materials.

mcbw pop-up x KURZ

030 HEART-board Pyramid

For munich creative business week (mcbw) 2025, a special partnership with the LEONHARD KURZ Foundation a specialist in surface decoration, brought an extraordinary new dimension to the HEART-board Pyramid. The modules featured in the FÜNF HÖFE München were refined using metallized, high-gloss reflective surfaces in a truly unique way! Under the theme "How to Design a Vibrant Community," the event, powered by bayern design, hosted 10,000 interactive visitors over the course of eight days.

This installation was made possible with the generous support of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

This installation will pop up again in January at the WDC Hub in Frankfurt.

Location: Anchorage, AK

Use case: 6-month exhibition and hands-on activity

Team: Francesca Du Brock, Jonny Hayes and Jim Kohl

Photography: Anchorage Museum

Year(s): 2024 - 2025

Weight: 570kg

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HEART-board Pyramids are building blocks made of 100% corrugated cardboard that are easy to assemble using hand only. Interpreting the geometric properties of the truncated tetrahedral-octahedral honeycomb, this design serves as an interactive building game, suitable for families and children aged 7 and above.

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