Location, Location, Location!

There are a great number of factors when dealing with the location, these include:

Project size

Site parking

Side access

Service entrance

Opposite park

Surroundings

Independent cinema next door

Resturant on the other side

Photo lab available across the road

Walkway material

Incoming and passing traffic conditions

Commonwealth bank across the road

Fluorescent lighting

Council parking meters

Cigarette thingys

Permitted parking times

Access after-hours

Church located opposite at rear

Local traffic rules

After-hours lighting

Consider. Incorporate. Design.

With thanks to Pascale for her camera.

Newtown(ish) Galleries

Looking in the area of the project, Newtown and close by suburbs; the formula of the galleries are the same. Rather small rooms with shop-like fronts, with most of them having a cutrain wall to intrigue passer-bys to come in and inspect/appreciate/check-out the artworks.

The Brett Whiteley Gallery also includes a studio work space which is helpful in this project.

Project Three: Art Gallery and Shop/House

Looking at the project brief, the gallery space we are to be working in is rather small. Before we proceed in designs, here are some precedents of small gallery design. They vary in locations: The Art Gallery of Ontario, Agathon gallery, Angela Li Contemporary Gallery, Artspace Gallery, Breathing Colours Gallery, Hayashi Gallery, McCreary Modern Art Gallery, Orlando Art Gallery and Skylark Fine Art Gallery.

The Rose

Like the desert rose of an exotic land, her posture tall and delicate.
Her small, curvaceous form longing for attention and affection lingers.

Concept design for the rose, beginning with an outline of an open rose, to a more defined room shape and finally the developed concept. The reason why the rose was initially chosen was because roses have connotations to romance and having those underlying feelings of tension were overwhelming in Hopper's painting.

The follow are the sheets I pinned up for the studio presentation:

I did not lavish the floor with plan with furniture or any other household items, merely just the bed. This way, it makes a direct message to viewers of what kind of room this project is.

This is a little something I threw together to show you guys the model.

Overall, I am quite pleased with the way my narrative turned out. From a shaky start with rigid components to a delicate and voluptuous shaped space, it really developed. Although I definitly agree, the roof structure should have been more sophisticated, the circles of the rose had ascending heights as it drew closer towards the center and the roof pieces should have done the same... an ascending roof would have really made this project. Still good though :)