I am new here and I would like to ask for some small help!
This semester I am doing an engineer diploma in architecture.
I am designing an Art Gallery in Poland, located on a river. I want to develop my idea more, and to do that I need to figure out what this Gallery can include? I was thinking about photograhpy, because the area doesn't have any history to which I could connect.
Having this problem solved, I can think more of a structure and some other details.
an art gallery is potentially just a simple room or series of rooms. depending how varied the art selections are, it may be appropriate for the gallery *not* to be overly prescriptive. why not use the location and culture as your springboard rather than the type of art?
a) you don't necessarily need to connect to history for a concept - not every project has to be contextual, or connected to or referencing history in some way -
however -
b) the area doesn't have any history
I doubt this is true. No area doesn't have any history.
It is a new urban park. Exists since around 1980. And since then nothing really changed there. They just added some pathaways and planted some more trees. I have done all the research.
I just want to do something very simple, and I think photography might be it, or just a simple contemporary art. I also want to do something interesting in the elevations to play with a light. Like the Art Gallery in Delhi by Abhhay Narkar.
Altough I would like to do smth that will connect that park with my gallery, make it more combined.
if you want to be really ballsy, use libeskind and the subsequent installations that take advantage of the insane tectonics of the shard as a precedent.
ok "your" gallery will be run by a collective or organization of some sort - they could be a non-profit artist-run gallery (combination of public and private funding), or they could be a commercial gallery (privately funded), or they could be a full-on publicly funded museum. These distinctions will play a bigger role to the operations of the space than whether it's showing photography or silkscreens, instead of oil paintings. To be perfectly clear: the medium of the artwork to be displayed in the gallery has almost no bearing on the operations, with exception of sculpture and installation art, which would put special structural requirements on your floor slab and would affect your loading dock configuration. Lighting requirements vary with each medium, but a good gallery is usually equipped with a super flexible lighting system anyways (because good curators know that every artwork or series call for a specific lighting solution).
The programming desired by various models of galleries will influence the layout of the spaces and their flexibility way more than the art content. If this gallery is going to host frequent social functions, such as fundraisers, talks, and openings, you better plan for it. If a part of the mandate is arts education, and they will run children and adult art classes, you better plan to accommodate both of those audiences. Anything involving children typically means increased concerns with security and privacy - so you can't just have them doing things in a completely open publicly accessible space.
You'd be better off to let go of the single-purpose gallery idea, and instead create your ideal client - the people who will run the gallery, as well as the many audiences that might visit it - and resolving those needs and desires with the limitations of site, cultural context, etc. A space to exhibit photography that is all about apertures or other concepts borrowed from photography would be a one-liner project anyways.
Ideas for an art gallery
Hello everyone!
I am new here and I would like to ask for some small help!
This semester I am doing an engineer diploma in architecture.
I am designing an Art Gallery in Poland, located on a river. I want to develop my idea more, and to do that I need to figure out what this Gallery can include? I was thinking about photograhpy, because the area doesn't have any history to which I could connect.
Having this problem solved, I can think more of a structure and some other details.
I am counting on your help! /
Thank you :)
an art gallery is potentially just a simple room or series of rooms. depending how varied the art selections are, it may be appropriate for the gallery *not* to be overly prescriptive. why not use the location and culture as your springboard rather than the type of art?
Just a quibble:
a) you don't necessarily need to connect to history for a concept - not every project has to be contextual, or connected to or referencing history in some way -
however -
b) the area doesn't have any history
I doubt this is true. No area doesn't have any history.
It is a new urban park. Exists since around 1980. And since then nothing really changed there. They just added some pathaways and planted some more trees. I have done all the research.
I just want to do something very simple, and I think photography might be it, or just a simple contemporary art. I also want to do something interesting in the elevations to play with a light. Like the Art Gallery in Delhi by Abhhay Narkar.
Altough I would like to do smth that will connect that park with my gallery, make it more combined.
if you want to be really ballsy, use libeskind and the subsequent installations that take advantage of the insane tectonics of the shard as a precedent.
ok "your" gallery will be run by a collective or organization of some sort - they could be a non-profit artist-run gallery (combination of public and private funding), or they could be a commercial gallery (privately funded), or they could be a full-on publicly funded museum. These distinctions will play a bigger role to the operations of the space than whether it's showing photography or silkscreens, instead of oil paintings. To be perfectly clear: the medium of the artwork to be displayed in the gallery has almost no bearing on the operations, with exception of sculpture and installation art, which would put special structural requirements on your floor slab and would affect your loading dock configuration. Lighting requirements vary with each medium, but a good gallery is usually equipped with a super flexible lighting system anyways (because good curators know that every artwork or series call for a specific lighting solution).
The programming desired by various models of galleries will influence the layout of the spaces and their flexibility way more than the art content. If this gallery is going to host frequent social functions, such as fundraisers, talks, and openings, you better plan for it. If a part of the mandate is arts education, and they will run children and adult art classes, you better plan to accommodate both of those audiences. Anything involving children typically means increased concerns with security and privacy - so you can't just have them doing things in a completely open publicly accessible space.
You'd be better off to let go of the single-purpose gallery idea, and instead create your ideal client - the people who will run the gallery, as well as the many audiences that might visit it - and resolving those needs and desires with the limitations of site, cultural context, etc. A space to exhibit photography that is all about apertures or other concepts borrowed from photography would be a one-liner project anyways.