Assignment 3 - Art Gallery - Gallery Interior

Assignment 3 - Art Gallery - Courtyard

An example of a sculpture (not my drawing)

In this image you can clearly see the two entrances to the gallery space (left) as well as the stair access to the cafe along the back wall (this also provides seating) and the opening to the loading dock ((on the right) which would have a door on it)

staircase to gallery mezzanine

Assignment 3 - Art Gallery - Fecades

Final Front facade. Fusing intrigue with viewing opportunities, inviting the passerby in. Entering on a second level mezzanine creates both a unique viewing perspective and an overall exciting experience.

Rear facade. This is all The owners house and functions separately to the gallery space whilst maintaining an artistic and aesthetic style. I need to put a pathway across the grass from the road but that's just a practicality. At the moment this area is the Franklin's loading dock.

Assignment 3 - Art Gallery - plan

Second story floor plan

First story Floor plan

I chose sight 3 located at 259 King St Newtown. At the moment the sight is a franklins.

original scale: 1:100

Introduction to Assessment 2

For a while i was trying to decide between two very different ideas. My decision was ultimately based on which would be more reasonable to build well within the allocated time. This idea was based around the narrative of Davy Jones. In this story an aging sea captain faces a storm of weather and guilt for past sins. His seemingly impossible survival fills him with a sense of disappointment and the realisation that he can no longer live like this. As a result, he wants to settle down, he needed a place where he could close his eyes and truly feel at home. I also drew inspiration from songs by secret and whisper called "great white whale" and "werewolves" (actually the whole album was fairly influential)

Basically the main driving forces behind the design of this structure are as follows

- Create a home, not just a house
- Provide an echo of the sea in it's design without being cliche or overly symbolic
- Draw from the dynamic nature of the sea (seen in the wave like form) and also from the familiar materials and textures associated with ships and the ocean
- At all times try to create something beautiful and elegant where a man and his family could be at peace.


(I have all the plans and sections seen in my presentation but they are unable to be scanned onto the computer, if you need to see them for marking purposes please contact me and i can give you the hard copies)

The captians refuge

mermaid picture from
www.myspace.com/jckislandgirl

The astronomer

These were some pictures i was thinking about for inspiration when i was designing my alternate narrative.

Davy Jones

The captain's cry was betrayed by the storm, diluted by the rain and stolen on the thracian winds. It was the seas final mutiny. The crew had ceased their scurry, the captain, stern and controlled made no reprimand, the lightning cracked open the sky with a slow and unatural calm And somehow, there was the stillness of morning, in the wildest of nights. The captain had tasted death before, once more and for the last time it fused with the heat of rum and the captians cold heart was made warm. The cannons belonged to davy Jones now, soon too his ship and the souls that clung to it's sails. His daughter stared to the horizon with a disturbing complacency, we shouldn't have made him walk papa, she whispered through the rain. The captain grasped his prize, the necklace that belonged to his lover, the lover that belonged to oldest friend. He knelt to his daughter, smiling he turned, casting the ruby and gold thread to the sea. Im sorry davy, he whispered to the rain. And the storm ceased as though it never wrapped it's fingers around the sea, and a new sensation of dissapointment met the captain on the bow. He needed not another sunrise, He needed a place where he could close his eyes.

The Philospher

Based on Philosopher in Meditation painted byRembrandt van Rijn, 1632

"Failing once more to illuminate the distant corners of the room, a lone candle burnt silently in the night. Constricted by so many things, time only brought him closer to darkness, he felt it with every hour that passed. At times the advocates of despair whispered to him from the unlightable depths of the shadows, extinguishing the hope from the outside in. The burning changed and reshaped him, reforming yet not refining, never refining. He knew now that soon either morning would wake or night should inevitably crush him, pushing the dark in till he could push back no longer. He was the candle, and the candle burns no more"

In this one the candle is a metaphor for the philosopher, the room is understanding and the shadows are the inconceivable answers. The burning out represents old age and the time that is so quickly gone.

17th century Dutch paintings

The Astronomer. Johannes Vermeer. 1668

http://feifeifeng3f.blogspot.com/

Willem van de Velde II (1633-1707)

rembrandt van rijn

http://russellmcneil.blogspot.com/2007/10/rembrandt-harmenszoon-van-rijn-1606.html

Philosopher in Meditation painted byRembrandt van Rijn, 1632

www.geocities.com/uttamkumar44/rembrandt3.html

Willem van de Velde, The Cannon Shot (ca.1670)
http://homepage.mac.com/schuffelen/artwork_E/velde.jpg

My initial reaction was to search and examine as many dutch paintings as possible. I found the interior scenes, despite the supremely well executed portrayal of light, to be emotionally foreign. A semi-complacent vacancy seemed to flood the eyes of many characters occupying the scenes. The seascapes however, seemed almost more human in the emotional display of time and circumstance. Sea and sky personified as a terrified and terrifying entity fused in beautiful second in time. I wish that the resolution was higher so that i might examine the detail more carefully.

I also enjoy Rembrandt's Philosopher in Meditation. Their is a ying and yang like balance of light and dark that harmonise with both the staircase and philosophers spiralling sea of consciousness. The character in the corner is intriguing, hidden by his position and illuminated by the lighting. Again the resolution is inadequate and disappointing, making it hard to determine more on the characters and the scene as a whole, I hope to soon find superior versions.

Bulsa model

House for Dr bartholomeusz

Section

Program

Structure

Geometry

Circulation

NB: all drawings are in the scale 1:200 but this may be distorted when veiwed on a computer screen due to the nature of compression and screen size.

all Drawings based off the originals found in Robson, David (2002), Geoffrey Bawa: the complete works, London, Thames & Hudson

Last years favourites

Although I believe this to be an expansion of last years arch1101, i have created a new blog for a new session. This said my blog feels a little too naked right now and therefore i have placed below are what I beleive to be my favourite product from last year, not just from arch1101 but from all my relevent studies

image backdrop of sky fromhttp://www.dailygalaxy.com/