_ The gallery houses contemporary art, with a focus on urban/Street art (graffiti)
+ King St has prominant street art, done by the local community, including aboriginal youth.
+ Gallery can then commission local artists to create pieces for the gallery which suit the context.
+ In terms of light, the gallery wont be limited as graffiti and pieces similar can take more sunlight than other traditional works.
_ Flexible in terms of material/lighting/room size as to allow for different uses - concerts/functions etc as well as housing art - Another way of financing the gallery.
_ Also because of flexible lighting and room size, aesthetically doesn't fit to one particular artistic genre - so a wider variety of art can be shown if wanted.
_ The workshop is based outside for practical reasons, this 'workshop' can also double as a community area where local youths can practice legalised graffiti (as it is becoming a more popular and valid form of art, the need for areas where legal graffiti can be practices it an important issue.) The workshop/entrance also brings people in from the back streets to the gallery - resulting in the gallery having two focus points of entry, from the back and front.
_ Living space is detatched from the gallery for three reasons:
+ Defines the entry point at the back of the gallery/i.e. workshop
+ Allows a certain level of privacy/detatchment from the gallery itself - the entrance to the apartment is on a completely different street.
+ If the gallery owner decidedes to start a family, they can sell off the apartment space without sacrificing the gallery.
Monday, June 16, 2008
Sunday, June 15, 2008
////////// Sketch Models - Sketch-Up_
_IDEA ONE_
_ The idea behind this concept was fairly simple. I wanted to use the internal form of a circle within the rectangular site. I thought it may be an interesting way of allowing circulation through the building, as well as the possibility of having retractable walls so the inner shape of a circle is visible from the exterior. However the concept quickly took over the practicality of the site, and the structure itself became very squashed and confusing.
_IDEA TWO_
Similarly with the first idea, this concept was dismissed because it lacked the straight-forwardness I was wishing to use. With my gallery focusing on street and urban art, and embodying this relaxed vibe, it seemed ridiculous to have a gallery that splintered off into a million places like a maze.
I did however take from this concept the idea of the back courtyard moving out towards the lane ways and the living quarters being detached from the gallery.
_ The idea behind this concept was fairly simple. I wanted to use the internal form of a circle within the rectangular site. I thought it may be an interesting way of allowing circulation through the building, as well as the possibility of having retractable walls so the inner shape of a circle is visible from the exterior. However the concept quickly took over the practicality of the site, and the structure itself became very squashed and confusing.
_IDEA TWO_
Similarly with the first idea, this concept was dismissed because it lacked the straight-forwardness I was wishing to use. With my gallery focusing on street and urban art, and embodying this relaxed vibe, it seemed ridiculous to have a gallery that splintered off into a million places like a maze.
I did however take from this concept the idea of the back courtyard moving out towards the lane ways and the living quarters being detached from the gallery.
////////// Site Documentation_
My site is located at 136 King St, Newtown. It faces Missenden Road, and backs onto the corner of Buckland Lane and Bucknell Street.
Reasons behind choice:
_ The site faces Missenden Road, and therefore the facade can be optimised. Allows different visual lines to be used to attract people from both King St and Missenden.
_ Surrounded by bars and restaurants including Bar Prego, Hiraku Japanese Restaurant and the Malborough Hotel. Ensures a constant stream of passer-bys both day and night.
_ Backs onto a street corner where the site is visible from Soudan Lane, Bucknell Street and Buckland Lane. Means great flexibility in terms of exit points from the site.
////////// Artists_ Maya Hayuk + Fafi
_ Maya Hayuk_
"Hayuk's paintings, prints, drawings and photographs can range from tender mockeries of idealized social rituals such as hot tubbing or undressing, to transcendent portrayals of geometries giving way to nature. She was raised by Ukrainian immigrant parents in a Wonderbread suburb of Baltimore, converting to punk rock at an early age. After extensive travel throughout the US, Europe, U.S.S.R. and Northern Africa, Maya earned a BFA in Conceptual Art, New Genres and Philosophy studying in Boston, Toronto and Odessa, Ukraine. She has shown her paintings in SF, LA, NY, Tokyo, London, Paris, Seattle, Portland, Raleigh and Baltimore, and lives between San Francisco and Brooklyn." _ Imperfect Articles
_Fafi_
Born and raised in Toulouse France, Fafi's strong presence in the graffiti and fine arts scene was witnessed on her first hometown walls in 1994. Back then, as she was painting and hustling, her sexy, funny, and sometimes aggressive girl characters made the whole world look and help kick-start a whole new graphic language; by exploring feminity through stereotypes, and using it to her advantage, she drew enormous attention and thus started to travel the world with thousands of Fafinettes in her brushes and paint cans. Back then, as she was painting and hustling, her sexy, funny, and sometimes aggressive girl characters made the whole world look and help kick-start a whole new graphic language; feminity by exploring through stereotypes, and using it to her advantage, she drew enormous attention and thus started to travel the world with thousands of Fafinettes in her brushes and paint cans. Europe, USA, Japan, Hong-Kong, the planet is a playground. Europe, USA, Japan, Hong Kong, the planet is a playground. And it's only started. And it's only started. - Fafi.net
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