Final Project: Newtown Gallery

Precedents



The national gallery in Berlin was a research object that I did in History 1 course, last year. It is also the last masterpiece by Mies. With a continuation of ‘less is more’, this gallery became a simple square plan with four curtain facades and crowned by a flat square steel roof.
I was impressed by the way he played with glass and steel. I believe this gallery is successful whether the relationship he created between itself and its surroundings (which is achieved by the curtain walls) or the functions of a gallery.




This is another project with a distinctive façade which also inspired me a lot. The location of this project is in United States. Its south facades feature 31 aluminum louvers that continually move to shade the interior and diffuse the natural light from the sun.








Here is an insteresting sitting funtion of a art gallery.

After studies of these galleries, I decided to create a gallery which will have impressive facades which may have an interesting relationship with its surrounding streets as well as an ideal natural function to adapt the sunlight in order to fulfill the basic light standard of a gallery.

PLANS,SECTIONS AND PERSPECTIVES

Site Plan 1:500


Plans 1:100

Sections 1:100

Poches 1:50

Perspective Drawings

Sketchup Images

Photo 1 shows the street view of Newtown gallery.


Photo 2 shows the main entrance and its facade.


Photo 3 shows the south/back facade with a second entrance.


Photo 4 shows a main interior scene, the corridor.

Photo 5 shows owner's private apartment space.

Model Photogrophs

Project 2. Painting and process

NARRATIVE:
A MAN, DISTRACTED BY THE OUTSIDE WORLD, IS MISSING OUT THE BEAUTIFUL THING IN HIS LIFE.

Project 2_ Drawings

PLANS, SECTIONS AND AXONOMETRIC DRAWING
SCALE 1:50

Project 2_Model

Project 1_Villa Savoye

--"One of Le Corbusier's most important works, the Villa Savoye is dramatic in its apparent simplicity."

Model

Enclosure

The centroidal form, enclosed by trees, is placed on the meadow site which is to the north-west of Paris.

Structure

Geometry

Simple geometries are applied for the volume of this villa which is centroidal and static. Additionally, golden section is applied into this building.

Circulation

The entry block shape is determined by the turning capability of a vehicle with the fundamental dynamic of a curvilinear volume tensioned against a rectangle.

The transparent membrane gibes contact with the route and meadow beyond.

There are two ways for vertical access which are the stair and the ramp which is placed centrally on dominant axis.

He explained the 'coincidence' that using both components for the vertical circulations as "The stair separates the space, the ramp connects the space".

Program

The diagonal divides the accommodation into spatial and cellar zones which could also be understood as public and private zones.
As showed in the axonometric drawing, there is continuous spatial contact between the living room, terrace and covered terrace.

Poches