Project 3: Wk5 Fifth Attempt

Project 3: Wk5 Fourth Attempt

Just included this additional post to highlight one part of my concept because I fear that it gets lost amongst the larger spaces, the workshop for the visiting artist. My reasoning for the organisation of this space relates to my narrative. My main character had a passion for art in school and wants to reengage with it. So the workshop is accessible from the system of courtyards at ground level, but above on the first floor a glass window has been provided so that members of the public can watch the artist in the process of producing his art, without disturbing him- with the height difference and glass barrier. In this sense the owner is offering the visitors the same engagement with, and discovery of art that he longs for. I felt this was a great way of playing with variations in verticality, to provide a space where the public could also receive and reflect upon the quite sensitive and personal act of producing art.

Project 3: Wk5 Third Attempt

Project 3: Wk5 Second Attempt

Installed the roof treatments to the gallery rooms and circulation armature. For the circulation I have included to thin lines that provide a disturbing quality as if the space is not sufficiently open to the outside, creating a contained tension with slender strips of light projected onto the wall. The shard roofs of the gallery spaces have been opened at varying degrees depending on how well light I wanted the rooms to be. In between the walls and the roofs would be glass, supported by steel braces.

Unfortunately because of time pressure I won't be able to rebuild the middle section so it matches up with the front space and back apartment. I have also not chosen to produce a sectional model, because as I discussed with Felicity, such a model would not assist a coherent reading of the gallery because it works so well in plan and is constantly shifting.

Project 3: Wk5 First Attempt

Project 3: Wk4 Seventh Attempt

To try and create the sloped shard roof geometries I am experimenting with a technique of tracing the flat shape, and then as I elevate it, I add to it. What I'm not sure of is whether to use layers of thick gsm paper that can be easily bent, or cardboard which will require scoring to manipulate.