Project 3

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Precedent - Lyon House Museum

The part of the Lyon housemuseum which inspired my design was "boxes" which contain the two main gallery spaces. It has two boxes - a "white box" which contains atwork and - a "black box" which is used for video presentations.

My design contains a single box and a darkroom which is not in the form of a box.
I also liked the way people could look down into the white box from the walkway on the second floor and incorporated this into my design.

Painted site model

The reason I made this mini site model was so that I could see the context in which I was designing the Gallery. I also felt that I needed to see colour and decided to paint the facades of the building. After this I returned to the site and walked the streets for an hour or so because I wanted to discover what I could add to the site and surrounding community to achieve a sense of decorum. I strongly feel that a building should add to the completion of the context in which it resides in a manner that is approprate for the particular project.

Introduction to my design

This brief part aims to introduce the reader to the main concepts in order to understand the successive posts.
In this project I really wanted to connect to the site and the community.
Firstly I wanted the gallery to communicate with commuting citizens and I went about this by opening up a large courtyard at the front of the site, onto King street.
The courtyard has trees and is flanked by an arcade with steps which people can sit on. There are trees also and a competition mural (explained later) which ca be viewed fom the footpath.
The arcade leads to the main entrance and continues through the building when open to the public. It leads to the Large sculpture yard and out onto the narrow road which intersects Eliza St and more importantly opens up this street which was previously used as a parking area.
The main building is structured around a central cube gallery space which I was inspired by the Lyon Housemuseum, though it does not relate to the precedent in any ohter way.
The appartment is placed at the back of the site which is private and recieves north facing sun.

The Martin Luthor King Mural - My inspiration

This mural was painted in 1991 by the NewZealand-born Canadian Artist Andrew Aiken.

It depicts the African-American civil rights leader Martin Luthor King and the campain for civil rights for Aboriginal Australians.

This is a beautiful painting and inspired the Anti-Racism theme thoroughout this design.

The Deisel Wall and the design competition

After deciding to connect with the site and community through Newtown's history of street art, I found this Diesel Milan design competition inspiring and wanted to add this component to my galley design. The idea is to promote the themes relating to the artwort being exhibited in the museum, starting from the relevant anti-racism issuse raised by the close by mural of Martin Luthor King. The competition help advertise the new museum and connect with the people on the street, giving people who don't usually look at art the opportunity to have a look inside and experience more thoroughly the art which they tasted while walking past.