Project 3 >> Sketch Model

- Perspective from Entrance -

- Section -

- Program/Annotated Section -

Project 3 >> Considerations

Art Form >>
Post-Modern Contemporary Art
Often shocks the viewer, focus is placed on audience to extract their own interpretation of art
Strong variety in art forms (paintings/drawings, digital art, sculpture, found objects...)

Gallery >> What Makes a Good Gallery??
Flexible for a range of media
Changing exhibitions

Considerations >>
Exhibition style
Lighting
Circulation

Project 3 >> Site: 249 King St, Newtown

- Street Perspective -

- Existing Site -

- Aerial Map View -

Why 249 King St??

>> one of the most central, busiest blocks of Newtown

>> provides a lot of public exposure (as would be desirable for the client, a becoming art dealer)

Possible Issues >> noise/privacy

Project 2 >> Rendered Drawings

- Plan -

the flat nature of urban life, placing the building/narrative into context (urban street, lack of connection with surroundings, rear faces a bare landscape)

- Section -
the effect of light through the spaces

- Axonometric -

interlocking of parts

Project 2 >> Final Model

- Exterior -

- Light Study -

sense of unease cast by the 'light slits'
harsh, northern light
exposes the emptiness in the interior

- 'reading space' -

natural, balsa
human scale and furniture suggest inhabitation

- Interior -

theatre style seating alluding to an empty cinema
contrast in materials
warm, natural 'reading space' contrasting to vacuous, artificial surrounding

Project 2 >> Sketches

Exploring possible formations for the "light slits" on the facade including varying thicknesses, lengths and alignments. These light slits allude to written lines in a book, but are uneven and unclear.

I have decided to use abstract seating within the building, doubling up as stairs. The use of stairs provides a forced circulation passage, symbolic as the woman must struggle to reach her retreat (the reading space in the far left corner).

Also, this theatre-style seating is symbolic. When viewed from the reading space, looking back towards the street appears as if in a cinema, watching the urban world as if it were an empty, fictional movie.

Project 2 >> Precedent

- Theatre Seating -
Brickman Stadium

Project 2 >> Study

Exploring possible section variations dealing with the placement of the 'reading space' within the larger volume.

Exploring placement of the reading space in plan.

Project 2 >> Model Development

Reading Space >>
Use of balsa as a natural material expresses the warmth of the reading area and contrasts to the bare, artificial surroundings

Empty Warehouse >>
Large empty space which is, literally, empty. "Light slits" along street facade (and large skylight on roof) cast exposed light into interior, emphasising emptiness and generating discomfort.