1st attemp model image

My consentration for this project lies on form and openings as they were taken as medias to convey the gallery owner's design concept of expressing the meaning within realistic life, and to make the gallery as a space to communicate with the public.

Entrance: The entrance was designed to face where the public transportation spot as well as street front to attract pedestrian's attention. In the street front elevation, entrance to the gallery is located on the right hand side, while the entrance to galler owner's private space will be reached after crossing through a courtyard.

Space: In this project, space was devided into two for different utilise(gallery use and owner's private use). However circulation exists as they seem to be individual blocks but actually can be accessed through each other. Another courtyard is available on 2nd floor for resting purpose. Stairs in the middle connects the courtyard on the ground floor to the one on 2nd floor.

Stairs: I designed stairs in both interior and outside courtyard. The stairs which has main function of connecting two courtyards is also available to access 1st floor of both blocks. Inspite of this, each block has got its own stairs to connect each level so as to achieve the circulation between interior spaces. Visitors can feel the transition between each level inside the space through walking along the stairs.

Skylight: In this project i mainly designed two types of skylights on gallery space only. One type is hexagon shaped openings for small rooms on ground floor. Second type is on the roof level of gallery space, which creates a bright lighting effect for exhibition hall of the gallery.

2nd Floor of Gallery owner's private space and Roof level of Gallery(skylight box)

Big rooms, Front courtyard with openings on the shade

Skylight

Entrance

Stairs in the middle

Artist and narrative

Artist:

Robert Bechtle, an American painter, born in San Francisco, California on May 14, 1932. He received his B.F.A. and M.F.A. from the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, California, in 1954 and 1958 respectively.

Bechtle has lived all his life in the San Francisco Bay Area, and his art is centered on scenes from everyday life.

Bechtle is considered one of the earliest Photorealists. By the mid-sixties, he had started developing a style and subject matter that he maintained over his career. Working from his own photographs, Bechtle created paintings that are described as photographic. Taking inspiration from his local San Francisco surroundings, he painted the neighborhoods, friends, family, and street scenes–paying special attention to automobiles. Bechtle's brushwork is barely detectable in his photo-like renditions. His paintings reveal his perspective on how things look to him, the color and the light of a commonplace scene.

Peter Schjeldahl wrote in The New Yorker that in 1969, when he first noticed a Bechtle painting, he was “rattled by the middle-class ordinariness of the scene.” As he looked more closely, he discovered “a feat of resourceful painterly artifice” that he gradually realized was “beautiful.” Schjeldahl concludes the article in this way: “Life is incredibly complicated, and the proof is that when you confront any simple, stopped part of it you are stupefied.”

Robert Bechtle's Painting:

The Photo-Realist uses the camera and photograph to gather information.

The Photo-Realist uses a mechanical or semimechanical means to transfer the information to the canvas

As he has stated:

A photograph often gives the feeling of a particular moment in time, and you get the sense of how that is bracketed in with the before and after.

Narrative:

A space to feel a complex but cheerful life.

Precedent Study

Form:
Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, Zaha Hadid

2009 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion

2007 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion

2001 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion

2002 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion

Art Gallery visits

Spiral Stairs:

Customs House Exhibition Space:

Site 3: King St, Newtown

Project 3: Site analysis

Final Submission: Model

Two Entrances

Light Studies 1

Light Studies 2

Final Submission: Poche plans, sections, elevations & Design Concept

The chosen painting is Jan Vermeer's Girl reading a letter at an open window. As the painting leaves reader imagination instead of directly providing fixed information, this space is designed to continue illustrating the hidden information. The narrative involved is the scene of how a gentle and quiet girl who lives on embroidering lead a life in her space. For meeting the requirement of an embroiderer, her studio needs to be located in a place with a nice surrounding. Thus the selected site is in a village with a sloping land and river surrounded, and the space spanning different heights on the slop as needed.

The 3 main spaces were marked as her working studio, half of which located underground; an open deck for scenery viewing, which located on the ground; a room for taking rest, which located at upper level. In the design of the openings, the purposes of each room were taken into consideration. As the focus light makes an effective studio, a long and thin opening on the higher part of 2 walls and a few sky lights were placed for achieving the purpose. Moreover, the location of the studio (underground) makes an isolated space which prevents disturbance. Moving on from the stairs to the upper level, which is for scenery viewing and taking embroidering ideas, box windows on 2 sides of walls are like frames to fix the scenery at a point. However, the third texture wall with patten formed by a few square openings gives a different feeling. It was designed to reveal the specialness of an artist. As i tried to make this level as an open deck, the entrance door was designedwith glass. The third level of this space (labled as first level) is for her to take rest. It is not necessarily to have too much light for this room thus it is with only one relatively smaller opening than the other rooms. There are 2 entrances for this space in underground level and ground level each, with stairs to connect with ground.

The entire shape of the space and interior

Level 1: the embroiderde’s rest room

Ground Floor: effect of light goes from texture wall

Underground Floor: the embroiderer’s studio

Ground Floor open deck

Model progress