Project 3 - Final Model

The above images shows the final model of Contemporary Art Gallery that I have designed. The model is in scale to 1:100.

I have chosen site 3 for this art gallery because I wanted to have more free space around the building, not too compact.

The layout and idea for my model is definite separate space between private and public space. By viewing from the bottom two images with the sectional cut of the model, the very bottom image shows private space in the ground level of the gallery, where the small room is the studio area with the storage room and next to the studio room there is small courtyard where people can set down and have a cup of tea/coffee, and next to the courtyard it has the owner's space. Which gives solid private space and there is a window from the owner's room where he/she can watch out the gallery while he/she is in their own room. The top part of the owner's room it has a gallery space where the artists works can be displayed and it also has the public toilet area, and it has separate space for male and female.

Looking at the second bottom image it illustrates whole public space. Starting from the lower ground gallery area, it has no windows, because I wanted to use that space for installation and also one of my contemporary artist Laura Adel Johnson uses Christmas decoration lights to compose her works, by this it need no light into the room. The above space from the ground level gallery, it's another gallery area, and it has bit more light entering from the ceiling and the back side of the building to give brighter mood in the second level. By contrasting from the ground level to upper level it demonstrates dark verse the light, but it still gives light into both room by the artists' works. The front part of the both gallery area has big courtyard which people can experience as they enter the entrance door of the art gallery.

Project 3 - 3D Perspective

This is a front view of the gallery.

This is a back view of the gallery and it has carpark at the back for customers.

This is a perspective view of exterior gallery.

This is a view from the enterance door to the gallery, the ramp leads to the first level of the gallery and the ground level of the gallery has no windows to allow no light in, because that room is used for artist's installation.

This image illustrates the top view of the enterance courtyard to the gallery.

The above image illustrates the courtyard which is between the studio and owner's room. This courtyard is used for a place where people can have a cup of coffee/tea.

The above image illustrates the long perspective view of the owner's room and on the right it has a door to the bathroom.

The above image illustrates the owner's room where the working table is and the window infornt of the desk is placed there for owner to keep an eye on the gallery even though he/she is in their own room.

The above image illustrates the owner's room.

The image above illustrates studio for contemporary artists.

One of the First level art gallery room and the doors infornt are the doors to the female and male toilets.

The images above illustrates exterior and interior perspective of designed Contemporary Art Gallery.

Project 3 - Final Drawings

The above images shows scale 1:100 drawing of Plan, Section, and Elevation.

Project 3 - Development towards the Final Design

Development Drawing of Floor Plan (1:200)

1:200 Model

When I was thinking about the design toward the final design for the contemporary art gallery is to have an easy flow between the rooms to the building, the simple design and layout of rooms and the lighting into the interior of the rooms and spaces.

By having a strong division of half in long horizontal way it separates the area of gallery and house and studio area, which composes definite public and private space. The doors to the exterior of different room area will act as the door and also acts as the corridor which will save the space for the building area, since we have limit area for the building size.

From the first design concept, I have left some of the ideas such as the lighting into the building, I have kept the dark spaces for the installation and artist design works that deals with lights which shines itself. And bright space for drawing and different sculpture works to be displayed.

The courtyard is included with the building which has strong connection between rooms within the building and people will have easy access between courtyard to gallery and the owner will have easy access to all different areas in this art gallery including owners own space. It has different two kinds of courtyard which has different interaction to the building. First courtyard is placed from the entrance but its surrounded by the walls and other courtyard is placed between the rooms of studio, owner's house and the door to the ground level gallery and its open on one side which will give also easy access into the building and easy access out the building considering about the fire exit.

Project 3 - Parti Drawing to Develop the Idea

This is a Parti drawing to think further about my first idea/concept for the design of Contemporary Art Gallery. It hasn't developed much but I thought about the use of light more. So on the third part of the drawing it has several different sizes of square and rectangles which will control the size and intense of light into the interior of the building. This design concept has come from Le Corbusier's 'The Chapel of Notre' building's wall windows, how it has different size of windows to control the size of light and this has been done by different thickness of walls and size of the holes.

Project 3 - Concept Design

1:200 Drawings

Ground Floor Plan (1:200)

First Floor Plan (1:200)

Side Elevation (1:200)

1:200 Model

Back View of the Gallery

Front View of the Gallery

Whole View of the Gallery without Roof

Front View of the Gallery without Roof

Top View of the Gallery

Top View of Gallery showing all the Ground Level

By making and drawing the model for this concept design helped to think more in depth about how the interior of the gallery should be lay out to compose a useful movement from room to room.

From the above image showing all the ground level from the top view illustrates the separation of the house/studio area and gallery area. But in some how I wanted to give connection between the gallery and the studio area, so on the top level of the building it has little corridor which connects the top floor gallery and the studio room which is placed on the first floor. The house area is placed just under the studio area to give strong separation from the gallery. Along the bottom side of the art gallery has office, storage, kitchen and the house.

The ground level gallery has no natural light entering into the building, the reason for this to emphasize the light work from the contemporary artists. To have the focus on their work and this part of the room for the gallery can be used for installation of the artist works. The first floor art gallery is to show more of drawings and photographs and other illustrating models with the some of natural light to brighten up the building. By this it will have contrast of dark and light to the building and also different quality of use of light, which is natural light and artificial light.

Project 3 - Natural & Artificial Light Research

Natural & Artificial Light

Sunlight, when broken up by means of a prism, is found to be composed of the colour bands of the spectrum - red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. These different colours represent different rates of vibration, increasing as we go from red to violet, while their wavelengths decrease. These visible rays give us sensations of light, colour and heat. In addition to these colour rays, sunlight also contains other rays not perceptible to our ocular sense and therefore invisible.

Artificial light does not radiate a complete spectrum but instead produces a light with an excess of one or more of the colour rays. In the case of incandescent lighting, most of its light is yellow, orange and red, whereas the standard "cool white" fluorescent light emits mostly yellow-green light. The various so called "sunlamps" produce either too much ultraviolet or too much infrared radiation and are definitely harmful. They may cause headaches, third-degree burns and severe conjunctivitis.

It will be harmful to have both natural and artificial light directly shinning on to the artistic work since it will destroy the original colour of the work. Sunlight will damage all the colours in the spectrum where as artificial light will damage the colour of the light bulb. So it is not good to have it directly facing the light with the work.

Project 3 - Concept Idea for Art Gallery

Concept Idea for Contemporary Art Gallery

My concept idea for this contemporary art gallery is to express the natural and artificial light to the art gallery. Going through bright and dark part of this gallery but even though it's dark it will bring light by artificial light from artist works. The works on this gallery will be based on the instillation and sculptures and few art drawings/paintings/photographs/prints etc... Relating back to my narrative, it's a place where everyone can get inspired and bring up their unknown knowledge by examining the works produced by contemporary artists. By this it gives public to experience different culture of art works and very unique designs produced with materials that we can use in daily life.

The building will be white to give very modern mood to the environment, which will give strong characteristic building to the community but inside it will contain colourful and lighting works which will brighten up the darkness of this art gallery. The material of the building would be concrete, which will help to respond to intense light or sound.

The rooms for displaying artist works in the gallery will be spaced out through two big rooms but it will have sub divisions for instillation and lighting sculptures. It will need to have sound barrier/proofing wall to prevent the music for instillation to emerge with other music.

The courtyard will be displayed at the back of the gallery for a rest place and to recall back to what people might have seen in the gallery.

Studio/house room for the owner and the artists will be placed in the upper level of the building, by building it up in two levels will match the height of the surrounding buildings on this site.

Project 3 - Further Research about Artists

Laura Adel Johnson

Jen Stark

For this contemporary art gallery, I have chosen two artists who deal with strong contemporary art works. Jen Stark and Laurar Adel Johnson both are well known for sculpture works. But Jen Stark also produces some installations, drawings which expresses her thoughts and feelings very freely. These two artists produces very bright works but in idfferent way. Jen Stark expresses brightness by use of colours in her sculptures, and her materials are very common material that we deal with in our daily life. All her works are like illusion and maze like works. On the other hand Laura Adel Johnson produces bright work by use of light bulbs but not too big light bulbs but the light that we use in occasion like Christmas. She also uses different colour to express the characteristic of the human figures. Very common point about these two artist is that they get inspired with immediate environment materials and produces their own unique art works.

I personally think that these two artists will give strong inspiration to the community in Newtown and they also give individual artistic mood to the art gallery. The use of colour relates back to the relation of different culture, individual clothing style, music, individual characteristic and more. Also the use of light illustrates the relation of dark and bright time of Newtown. What I mean by this is even in the day time and night time there are different type of activities to do in Newtown and it will be still bright even though it's in night time.

Project 3 - Architect Research

Herning Museum of Contemporary Art | Steven Holl architects

Herning Museum of Contemporary Art in Herning, Denmark is a first prize winning project designed by Steven Holl Architects to accommodate exhibition galleries, 150 seat auditorium, music rehearsal rooms, restaurant, media library and administrative offices.

The Herning Center of the Arts unites three distinct cultural institutions: the Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, the MidWest Ensemble and the Socle du Monde. The new center is intended to be an innovative forum combining visual art and music.

Herning’s prominent relationship with textiles and the Museum’s large collection of original works by Piero Manzoni (in total 46 works) form the inspiration for the concept design. The museum is sited near Herning’s original Angli shirt factory, and the shirt collar-shaped plan of its 1960s building has inspired the shape of the new museum building.

Viewed from above, the roof geometry resembles a collection shirt sleeves laid over the gallery spaces: the curved roofs bring balanced natural lights to the galleries. The loose edges of the plan offer spaces for the café, auditorium, lobby, and offices. The exhibition spaces can be easily closed, while all peripheral spaces remain open for after-hours use. Truck tarps were inserted into the white concrete formwork to yield a fabric texture to the building’s exterior walls.Gallery spaces are orthogonal and finely proportioned for art, while overhead curved roof sections transport natural light into the spaces.

The galleries’ perimeter walls are load bearing elements, emphasizing these as “treasure boxes” in the museum. Internal gallery walls of lightweight construction are movable, providing flexibility in anticipation of changing exhibitions. Floors of integral color charcoal concrete unify the ground plane into a continuous patina with a wax finish.

The reason I have researched Steven Holl is his has focused deeply with his contemporary art gallery creating different use in art gallery, such as using as display art, performance art, and music. He also focused on how people will move through his gallery which is very important point to think about the gallery. The point I like about Steven Holl's gallery is how people flow through the gallery very freely and simple design of exterior.

Project 3 - Artist Research

(Tile Art #12, 2007, by Mark Lawrence)

(Enlighten my Darkness, Psalm 18:28. VerseVisions Modern Art, by Mark Lawrence)

Mark Lawrence

Mark Lawrence is a christian artist which he presents his most expressive abstract art to brightly shine the light of Jesus Christ in the world. He creates his works by the experience of his vision of honor, praise and glorify the Risen Lord with art inspired by Bible verses.

Mark Lawrence said, "The Christian art I create is not an attempt to depict a likeness, nor an image of anything to be worshipped here on earth, or in heaven above. My art is created to point all people to Jesus Christ who is worthy of all of our honor, glory and praise."

The reason I chose this artist is that he illustrates strong theme of religion and this also shows strong intense light which I want to focus on when I'm designing my art gallery. His works creates uniqueness of individual interest of own topic when creating art work. This will also link to the mood of Newtown.

Project 3 - Narrative

Narrative:

"Retired artist who wants to encourage and support younger contemporary artists to develop their work. The artist has his own studio house separated from the art gallery. This commercial art gallery is for the public to see and be inspired by the artists and their work."

Project 3 - Site Analysis

King Street is the main street of Newtown and centre of commercial and entertainment activity. Enmore Road branches off King Street towards the suburb of Enmore at Newtown Bridge, where the road passes over the railway line at Newtown Station. The main shopping strip of Newtown is the longest and most complete commercial precinct of the late Victorian and Federation period in Australia. King Street is often referred to as "Eat Street" in the media due to the large number of cafes, pubs and restaurants. Newtown is a centre of Thai cuisine, but its diverse culture has attracted an astounding array of cuisines, including Balinese, Chinese, Vietnamese and Japanese, Indian, Italian, Greek, Mexican, Spanish, African, French, Turkish, Sri Lankan, Lebanese and both traditional and modern Australian. Cafes, restaurants and galleries can also be found ini the streets surrounding King Street - in particular Enmore Road, Wilson Street and Australia Street.

Since Newtown is city of first suburban shopping centre outside the City Centre it has large number of people that visits this town. The mood of Newtown is very cultural, as well as unique with all different individual style of shops all around the main road, King Street. Today this thoroughfare us still a shopper's mecca - lined with hundreds or stores, cafes, restaurants and lively pubs. Also the Newtown area has long been a very diverse melting pot, with people of many ethnic backgrounds and this vibrant local colour and 'flavour' extends into neighbouring suburbs around Newtown. Newtown is very open and individual cultural area which relates to all creativeness to this town. Relation with music, performing art different type of sex, such as gay and lesbians, different culture and clothing.

For this Project 3, the theme of Newtown links strongly with the contemporary art, because of its individuality of design and unique creation of art works and its use of colour and materials also gives strong connection to characteristic of Newtown.