Line Drawings: Plans, Sections and Site Plan

Final Model Pictures and Description

Overall shot of the site with both the gallery and both studio and gallery at rear of the site. The large black surface is the carpark which has 4 residential houses on it.

This is a front shot of the main gallerys on the site. The building is recessed (explained in previous post) and the front of the gallery has a glass facade to allow maximum sun exposure during time from 10am to 1pm.

Image of the interlocking of rooms, from the main galleries to the massive open glass gallery to the stairs which lead to under the glass gallery leading back down to the courtyard gallery down below.

The gallery and apartmen/studio interlocking via the outdoor courtyard connecting the gallery and apartment/studio together. The site was slplit into two sections gallery and residential due to factors such as noise polution. The front of the site due to the high traffic and public flow on Kingstreet being so noisey and the rear of the site being quiet and having a park across the road which can be used as inspiration by the artist.

Rear view of the site with the studio and apartment at the read. The wall and skin placed at rear to enclose the public while walking from front of the gallery and site to the rear. The skin is also to help with giving some sort of privacy to the pblic from the carpark. Also the skin can be used to frame views around Newtown while the public walk though the site.

The idea behind the skin used at the read of the site. The sense of framing views in between each opening is shown. This idea was to give the public walking though the site as a sense of making art with out actually physically touching or using anything to make art. It is more of a subconsious effort and they will notice after or during the process.

Vision of a facade

With the site at Newtown being Heritage listed it was gonna be difficult in designing a facade for the art gallery. I opted in keeping the original facade of the building in trying to keep the street scape, then i decided in demolishing the facade and recessing the building 10 or so meters in order to hide the new facade from the street scape. The following pictures show how i resolved the front facade of the new building.

When walking along the street to site one on Kings Street the recessed buildings facade is not visible and in doing so the street scape is not affected in a negative way. The facade of the new building is now only visible when the public is directly in front of the building(shown below)

The side of the cinema (on the left) can be used as a sort of canvas, which can have artist paint or even incorporate graffiti which is found all around Newtown. The graffiti is part of the Newtown coulture, so in trying to incorporate the graffiti into the site its trying to incorporate the Newtown graffiti culture into the artgallery.

The main principle behind the idea of recessing the building in keeping the scheme in the street scape.

Progression of Model

Summer/Winter Shadow Studies

Summer Shadow

Winter Shadow

With the chosen site (Site 1) being so narrowed and allowing less light on to the site, i chose to do a sun shadow study for both summer and winter periods to help me in developing of a scheme.

With these two studies i was able to work out a scheme which would allow more sun exposure within and through out the art gallery and working studio.

Still Shots of Sun studies

Site Location

Project 3: Art Gallery in Newtown

Our final project for design semester 1 2009 was to chose one of the 3 allocated sites in Newtown. I chose site 1, which was 81 meter by 11 meters wide.

We were asked to develope a scheme for a art gallery which would have gallerys, courtyards and also a studio and living apartment for the art dealer to work and live in.