Project 3-Final Model of the Gallery

Facade

The Apartment

Gallery Area with no Ground Floor Ceiling

The Stair Room

Back of the Gallery

Stair

The First Floor Corridor

Project 3-Final Drawings of the Gallery

Ideas of the Gallery

Balance: The theme of the gallery is the abstrat art, so I made the overall form of the building quite simple, like the Venturi Mother's house(he applied the big scale in a small house to keep the balance), I use the simple shape to control the distorted arts.

Light effect: In order to have more wall spaces to hang the paintings and I also want to have some light changes in the gallery, I made a part of the gallery have no ground floor ceiling, and the walls and first floor ceiling above have a rib structure(which is made of glass and timber),so the light could pass through the walls and down to the ground floor gallery, therefore the light in the big display area is from dark to bright.

Circulaion: It is shown on the plan that the whole gallery is in the circulation, the stair lead the visitors to different spaces, from the small display area to the big display area then to the court yard and at last return to the original point.

Hazy Court Yard: I made the court yard a bit hazy, in my opinion things that are not clear is quite attractive, when the people walk pass the court yard and see the strange conture of

the sculptures, I believe the curiosity will lead them to walk into the gallery

The Plan of the Gallery(Ground Floor:left, First Floor: Right)
The Section Drawings
Rendered Room-Plan and Sections
Views in the Ground Floor

Views in the First Floor

Site Plan

Project 3-Attempts

Attempt 1:

The idea of this design is inspired from the old style Chinese house,szu-ho-yuan, the main activity area is round as a square or rectangle, and in the middle is the court yard.

In this primary design, the galley area occupies the whole ground level and half of the first level,

and all of the other rooms and apartment are located in first level, and the court yard is in the middle of the ground floor, people in the first floor can see the view of the court yard from the above corridor.

Attempt 2:

This attempt nearly changed all of the aspects from last attempt, I want to focus on the balance between the theme and the form of the building; the circulation when walking around the gallery; and the light effect. I have played with its shape, and moved the court yard from the middle to the front, but there were still many problems, such as the large quantity of windows on ground level wall, and the funny gaps between the gallery and the adjencent buildings. And also the rooms in first level were too big.

Attempt 3:

According to tutor's suggestion, I have minimized the amount of the ground level windows, reduced the first level room space and just simply divided the gallery space into 2 part, one is small the other is big.

Attempt 4:

I removed the gap between the courtyard and the adjancent walls, moved the office and stock room from first level to ground level.

Project 3-Site and Theme

SITE

Site 1-Long and narrow slice sandwiched by other two buildings

80*10m

THEME

Abstract Paintings

Abstract Sculptures

Project 2-The drawings

Plan and Section Drawings

Axonometric Drawing

The Drawings mainly focusing on the light darkness and brightness in the room,
the center of the room is amlost dark, but a little light passes though the tunnels.

Project 2-The Model

The Final Model

(The transparent file is quite reflective, click to view bigger images)

The Concept Image

(The Project is Constructed on the cliff, made of Glass and Concrete)

1. The Base
(It is made as a cliff, to indicate the harsh Enveronment)

2. The Doors in the Room and the Stair
(Looks like a maze)




3.The Tunnels

4. The "Exit"

Concept: The concept I extract from the painting is Hopeless. The lady trys to figure out the current problems, she has explored so many ways, but finally she found all the ways were blocked.

With my model, the central dark "block" is the room, the characters is traped in the room, it is a almost black area, the maze doors made her confuse, she enter any of the door and find a little bit light at the front, the light is just come through the tunnels in front of her(I regard the tunnels as the solutions), she track the path of the light and finally reach the destination, there is the sunlight, she can see what happens clearly in front, she want to get out and get the fresh air but she found the "exit" is tightly blocked by a big glass, then she returns to find other ways out, she is busy all day in the room to find the right way out, but at last she finds that all the "exits" are blocked, which lead her into a hopeless situation.

The Base: The Project is located on the cliff to indicate her steep situation, her life is easy to ruin.

The Transparent Box(Glass Box): The Glass Box is made of transparent film, in my idea, it represent the obstacles to prevent her from solving the problems. I made it transparent because accroading to the painting, her mood is very obvious, she is depressed and worried, everybody can understand her mood from her countenance. And there is another point, the lady in the Glass Box is a person with a very limited outlook, she thought the "exits" are only blocked by a small piece of glass wall, she is very poor of trapping in the dark and can only see narrow views from the "exits", she cannot see the wide view, she do not know what happens outside and where she situated is surrounded by a big Glass Box, this is another expression of hopeless with my model.

The Room(Central "Bolck" and Tunnels-Conctere): The Room is made of black cardboard to show a almost dark area. The doors in the Central Block lead her to the tunnels, the doors are in different shapes and height, it can easily make her get confused in the dark. The Tunnels are complex to indicate the complxity in her heart, is it made in different shapes and height represent different solutions, and also some of the ends of the tunnel are blocked by glass wall(bright), a small quantity of ends are blocked by normal concrete wall(totally dark).