Good to see you developing stuff. You need to think about:
1. Support: How are you going to hold up the upper studio? It is cantilevered from a very thin wall element that will not support that amount of weight. Consider how you could use columns, blade walls, or continue that arched roof element over the gallery to form a vault that will support the studio above. Also, those glass walls will not hold themselves up. You need to consider some wall structure - walls need to be min. 300mm thick to play a structural role in this case.
How do you get light into the lower studio??
2. Light: There is lots of glass in the gallery space - this will admit lots of light, but from all directions. The best light for a gallery space in the souther hemisphere, comes from the south - indirect, even light. Eastern, western and northern light can be too intense for a gallery/studio space, and will make the interior of the space very hot, light a greenhouse.
3. Volume: your studio spaces are reading as simple volumes only. Consider how you can manipulate the floor plane and ceiling height to create a variety of different size volumes that could be suited to a variety of different functions and processes that your artist uses in making their work.
Heather,
ReplyDeleteGood to see you developing stuff. You need to think about:
1. Support: How are you going to hold up the upper studio? It is cantilevered from a very thin wall element that will not support that amount of weight. Consider how you could use columns, blade walls, or continue that arched roof element over the gallery to form a vault that will support the studio above. Also, those glass walls will not hold themselves up. You need to consider some wall structure - walls need to be min. 300mm thick to play a structural role in this case.
How do you get light into the lower studio??
2. Light: There is lots of glass in the gallery space - this will admit lots of light, but from all directions. The best light for a gallery space in the souther hemisphere, comes from the south - indirect, even light. Eastern, western and northern light can be too intense for a gallery/studio space, and will make the interior of the space very hot, light a greenhouse.
3. Volume: your studio spaces are reading as simple volumes only. Consider how you can manipulate the floor plane and ceiling height to create a variety of different size volumes that could be suited to a variety of different functions and processes that your artist uses in making their work.