Project 3- Robert Klippel

The Art

I wanted to represent an artist that would reflect on Newtown's experiental, boho type feel. I thought to do this I would look at recycled and industrial art, this lead me to Robert Klippel. Robert Klippel was fasinated by structures and components of organic and mechanical forms forging correspondences between the two. As well as working with metal he used wood, plastics and also produced paintings.

Architecture and Art

Due to his fasination with machine versus nature I looked to Coop Himmelblau and Richard Goodwin for inspiration. In particular there use of a metal exoskeleton and glass to achieve a sculptural machine-like composition.

Project 3- The Site

Site 3
The site is sandwiched between a hotel and a food outlet.

Surrounds

The performing arts complex

The impromptu community market and art space alcove

Opposite

Wilson Street

Project 3- Site Analysis

The site 3 is located on King Street in Newtown. I feel that the art gallery would compliment the existing performing arts centre on the corner of Eliza and King Street as well as the alcove further along King Street towards the city that provides the area with an impromptu community market and art space.

This site also has the advantage of being exposed to Wilson Street, Eliza Street and King Street. This maximises the galleries exposure to potential gallery goers and art collectors.

Project 3- Precedence Analysis

Pompidou Centre

Musee d'Orsay

The Pompidou Centre and Musee d'Orsay influenced my gallery design. The facade of the Pompidou Centre incorporates the building's services and circulation paths. This frees the floor plans within the centre allowing the building to adapt to the displays. By placing the structure on the outside of the building it creates a machine-like quality to the facade. This is a quality that I was interested in recreating in my gallery design for Robert Klippel.

The Musee d'Orsay also inspired my design. This museum achieves natural light through large skylights. Short partitions separate allow the natural light to flow through the displays and also allows the sound of other gallery goers to permiate throughout the museum creating an energetic atmosphere. I also appreciated the neat linear circulation paths of the museum however due to my artist and his dislike of horizontal planes I had to let this idea go.

Project 2

The woman looks to be waiting for something to happen, filling in time by playing tinkering with the piano. The way the viewer is looking into the appartment gives the painting a theatrical feeling and inturn we sit and wait for the show to begin.

Narrative: A warehouse for a gregarious clock maker.

Location: Urbane city scene; Redfern.

Project 2- Model

Entry at street level; Workroom acts as the stage of a theatre.

Use of skylights allows light to penetrate the warehouse. By incorporating an atrium in the design, the parti of the clock is brought to life through the working sundial.

Project 2- Plan, Section and Axonometric

The parti of the warehouse is a sundial. The plan has a simple order. This is a reflection of the order of a clock steadily keeping time. Time is a link back to the painting as the woman in the painting seems to be passing time, or waiting for something to happen. Thick concrete walls have been placed at 12, 3, 6 and 9 o'clock as devises to read the time as well as partitions between the different exhibits. The location of the openings in these walls also push the visitor in a clockwise direction linking the plan back to the clock theme. The walls also act as display cases having recessed cavities to place the woman's crafted clocks.

The workroom for the woman is for designing and crafting original clocks. The workroom has intentionally been kept small as she is a more traditional clock maker creating one off pieces. Therefore her tools would mainly be handheld chisels and saws. The location of the workroom plays on the gregarious nature of the woman and is a link back to the theatrical nature of the painting. From the street people would look up and watch her working as if she was an actor on stage. She is also able to watch the time pass as the workroom looks over the sundial.