Final Model

Chosen Artist- Casey Smith

Casey Smith is an Australian Landscape Photographer. Specializing in Panoramic views Casey seraches for the beauty in all areas of the country. I really like the idea of the beauty of outside being for display on the inside. I would like to create space that allows you to feel as if you have a connection to the outside world whether you have a solid opaque wall or come across different slots and openings throughout the building not just as three separate entities but as a whole.

Final Presentation

Recommended Precedents

The Musee D'Orsay and the Kimbell Art Gallery both create that tunnel like affect from the use of an arched ceiling in a long and narrow space. I enjoy the soft light both of these have created whether it be due to natural light or artificial light.Although the AGO (Art Gallery of Ontario) is not on the list of recommended precedents, it has been redesigned by Frank Gehry and has gained a lot of international attention. It creates that rounded sculptural walkway and incorporates beautiful soft light that plays with shadows from the wooden ribbing. I also hope to incorporate a large piece gallery that can inhabit both large pieces of art in a beautiful empty open area as well as would be large enough to have large sculpture interact with the walls and ceiling of the space.The Musee du Jeau de Paume is that really long narrow shape that matches the shape of Site One. It is so simple yet powerful. I appreciate the repetitiveness of the archways along the side of the building. I would like to translate into the repetitiveness of perphaps many more than the original three buildings I was imagining and the archways inhabit different precincts and pathways through the area.

Gallery Precedent Images

This gallery is the Claremont Museum of Art in Los Angeles. What struck me with this gallery is the whitewash walls allow the artworks to pop of the walls only to be reflected off the shiny varnish of the dark timber floors. I also like the lighting that comes into the space through the slanted roof as well as the industrial look of the ceiling that it is not distracting from the art. The juxtaposition of the abstract contemporary art with the old rustic warehouse feel of the architecture play off each other and works really well.


The T2F (The Second Floor) Art Gallery in Karachi Pakistan is also another gallery that I found works really well but in a different way. I enjoy in this gallery the exposed brick and timber floor that makes it feel really intimate, relaxing and small as it is similarily set up to an apartment. It appears that you are able to interact with the art in a different way as it is set up as you are the owner of the art and it is hanging up in your living area. I believe this gives the illusion that as you are the owner ultimately it is your decision what the art means to you as opposed to what the art is trying to say to you (the feeling you have while at a gallery).



Another gallery I was interested in was the Wolverhampton Art Gallery in England. I really like the idea of large empty spaces with high ceilings, plain walls and floors for dramatics and distraction free contemplation of art.


Lastly I really like the idea of having a tunnel in an art gallery, as it is a journey of what the artist wants to say or wants you to learn from the experience. The Oldham Gallery has this really beautifully repeating tunnel that allows you travel along while viewing the art so the installation has a start point and destination with a realization at the end.

The top image is the Tunnel in St. James Station in Sydney. I really like the idea of an underground passageway for sculptural art that walks you directly through the sculptures in a very linear way. I hope to translate the ligth qualitites of the tunnel at St. James through into my gallery as I intend to incorporate direct spotlight onto the sculptures with soft light that cascades down the arched walls.

Lighting And Site

Final Poche

Final Model

Narrative

An underground dwelling for a busy working man who NEEDS time away from his job, family and world for contemplation.

Working Model Continuation

This is the continuation of my working models as I have now combined bits of both the cave and maze version. I again have used the idea of light increasing the experience of isolation and depression. The new model contains three rooms which have different light qualities, different ceiling heights and different floor planes. The first room you descend down into is more like a corridor and contains a very thin ceiling with circular cutouts that appear like spotlights that create that sense of this space being focused on the observer. It includes long drawn out stairs toward the opening into the next room to translate the fact that it is a slow focused space. The following room includes slits in the roof which brings that sense of openness and freedom into the space. It includes offset levels that encourage running down and then up as it is a quick space that allows you to open up to the idea of contemplation. The last room has angled focused lights of different sizes. This space incorporates only one raised platform which reflects the idea of allowing one to contemplate on two different levels; a normal level and again at a heightened level. This is the continuation of the working model.

First Working Models- Cave

This was the second version of my first working model. This was the attempt at making this model as a cave/bunker. I believed that isolation and depression seem to correlate with the idea of being buried in a deep dark place. However I am still interested at this stage at incorporating that idea of the repetitive light into my model which is why this working model has turned out more like an open pavilion including an interior room, which although casts some nice lighting shadows does not portray that heavy dark feeling of depression or loneliness. Nor is it very closed in enough for it to be considered either a cave or a bunker. I do like the interior room that is below the ground plane though as the angled walls that include only one source of light from above seem to be closing in around you and I feel that reflects desperation, when everything is caving in on and there is nothing to do but let it happen. So this is the attempt at a cave model.