Assignment 3 - Final Idea

The final concept was decided to be based on the idea that photographs capture "moments" in our lives. They preserve a piece of our lives. So each element of the building is tailored to fit this idea of a lifeline, with highlighted moments in time.

The front facade has a series of metal bars criss-crossing over the face of the building, with various glass windows created by the metal bars. These windows represent the "moments" in time captured by the camera. This facade is imitated on the back face of the building as well.

This interior of the building shows the main gallery room with the stairs leading up to the workshop, store room and living area. This room has a really big window on the northern side allowing lots of natural light in. The other rooms have less natural light, and in some cases none.

This shot is from the back area of the building. This shot shows the main window allowing light into the main gallery. It also shows the skylights allowing light into the minor galleries and the rear facade.

This picture shows the interior spaces of the first level. It shows the stairs that lead up to the workshop, store room and living area.

Assignment 3 - Developments

Photographic Distortion of Perspectives

I developed a new concept that followed the premise that as a photography uses lighting, camera abilities and special angles to DISTORT the way a picture is taken in order to communicate a particular perspective to us, the gallery would DISTORT the space in which the photography is being displayed.

This required some very flexible architecture, as the idea needed to be clearly communicated otherwise the it would simply be misconstrued as a mistake in the architecture.

I decided on a gridding system for the rooms to be used that was off axis to the regular grid the building followed. To support this, angled glass windows in the facade were implemented.

















A revit render of the rooftop side shows the facade on the other side of the apartment section.













This idea was abandoned as it wasn't being communicated strongly enough leaving many questions and holes in the concept. The viewer would not pick up the concept as easy it it might've been expected.

Assignment 3 - Original Idea

Terraced House

My initial concept was a photography gallery that was set in a traditional terraced house. The idea was to place photos, as pieces of history, in positoins hat they would normally be placed around a household. They were supposed to bing the building back to life with their wealth of information.

The gallery was supposed to fit into the traditional layour fo the buildings of Newtown. The Terraced house layout was also a good idea as my chosen site, Site 3, had that locked between two buildings feeling that is typical of terraced housing. That tight space between two similar buildings, yet when being within one of them it was impossible to tell what existed on the other side of the wall.















This idea had promise however it soon ran out of steam as my creativity was continually running into "walls", which I could not fin a way to go around.