Project 3: Final Design Concept

Concept: stencil art and context - how the technique is used to create two totally different art styles.

Gallery: consists of 2 main sections
1) Stencil Art Gallery - shows high end art intended to be displayed in t traditional gallery setting
- space is naturally lit with clean finishes, polished concrete floors and simple circulation pattern
-white rendered walls with high ceilings

juxtaposed against...

2) Photography of stencil street art - Photos of stencil street art brought into a gallery context
-to get to the street art gallery, you are forced down into the space
- space is dimly lit and uses spot lighting to display works
- wall rendering deteriorates, it becomes rough and then eventually becomes painted or exposed brick
-circulation pattern changes orientation and becomes based on laneways and alleys - ie the setting in which street art exists

lighting:
- overhead light tunnels are used - give a similar effect to the experience of walking down an alley in between 2 buildings where light floods in from above.
- effect of this in the gallery is that it creates an 'alley' of light that people pass through.

apartment:
- the lane way configuration of the street art gallery is translated in the apartment to form the rooms and spaces. However, it has been rotated 90` in order to conform with the alignment of the stencil art gallery. Therefore links can be drawn between the 2 types of art exhibited in the gallery to the owner's apartment space.

facade:
a white rendered wall is used to represent the 'mainstream' (ie the well respected high end stencil art). This wall is interrupted by intersecting walls and materials (ie various materials that could be considered the canvases for street artists) This relates to how street art imposes itself on us. It is there to be seen, not to blend in. In a way the facade and the gallery attempts to allude to the context in which one may find street art it.
Dappled light enters through the facade via small slits. This can be likened to peeping through a fence in a back alley, where people only see a glimpse of what is housed behind the prominent facade.

Project 3: drawings

Project 3: the Model