cagm1907
Submission 24
Design Statement - Abstract
The courtyard is the new focus of the Museum and a new place for the town to engage with its’ Museum and art gallery. The courtyard space provides an area suitable for public sculpture display that can contribute to the street scene.
The courtyard is veiled by a screen to the front elevation. The screen maintains the strong traditional building line of the street but invites visual penetration to the semi public space of the courtyard. The screen and the courtyard beyond reinforce the entrance by giving it a new relevance to the surrounding gallery spaces. The screen has been developed in collaboration with an artist and holds the possibility of being renewable as part of future artists’ projects. The suggested design has a vibrant arts and crafts motif formed by two layers of suspended pressed metal and reflects on the city’s Regency ironwork heritage.
The existing entrance is retained as an entry point from the street but inside the space is given new meaning by virtue of its’ aspect to the courtyard and the visible connection with the gallery floor. A new escalator is able to rapidly convey visitors up two levels to the start of their journey through the gallery spaces.
The new gallery arrangement is intended to connect into the existing Museum and reinforce the east–west axis. The exhibition spaces are treated as a series of varying sized rooms in a flexible arrangement where the display areas can be extended to include the spaces of the Hospitality Suite and meeting Room. The Temporary Exhibition space is located on the top level in order to maximise hanging heights, natural lighting and flexible wall arrangements.
The building will fully embrace current agendas for sustainability and energy efficiency, maximising the use recycled materials and products from renewable sources, ensuring high levels of insulation, built-in thermal mass, reducing solar gains, maximising use of natural lighting, natural ventilation with summer cooling. A “green wall” creates moist area in the courtyard for evaporative cooling and a cool oasis for drawing air into the building. Roof lights, wall boxes and screened light are used to introduce and control daylight. A large section of roof is sloped facing south and would be used for either photovoltaics or solar collectors.
Submission 24
Design Statement - Abstract
The courtyard is the new focus of the Museum and a new place for the town to engage with its’ Museum and art gallery. The courtyard space provides an area suitable for public sculpture display that can contribute to the street scene.
The courtyard is veiled by a screen to the front elevation. The screen maintains the strong traditional building line of the street but invites visual penetration to the semi public space of the courtyard. The screen and the courtyard beyond reinforce the entrance by giving it a new relevance to the surrounding gallery spaces. The screen has been developed in collaboration with an artist and holds the possibility of being renewable as part of future artists’ projects. The suggested design has a vibrant arts and crafts motif formed by two layers of suspended pressed metal and reflects on the city’s Regency ironwork heritage.
The existing entrance is retained as an entry point from the street but inside the space is given new meaning by virtue of its’ aspect to the courtyard and the visible connection with the gallery floor. A new escalator is able to rapidly convey visitors up two levels to the start of their journey through the gallery spaces.
The new gallery arrangement is intended to connect into the existing Museum and reinforce the east–west axis. The exhibition spaces are treated as a series of varying sized rooms in a flexible arrangement where the display areas can be extended to include the spaces of the Hospitality Suite and meeting Room. The Temporary Exhibition space is located on the top level in order to maximise hanging heights, natural lighting and flexible wall arrangements.
The building will fully embrace current agendas for sustainability and energy efficiency, maximising the use recycled materials and products from renewable sources, ensuring high levels of insulation, built-in thermal mass, reducing solar gains, maximising use of natural lighting, natural ventilation with summer cooling. A “green wall” creates moist area in the courtyard for evaporative cooling and a cool oasis for drawing air into the building. Roof lights, wall boxes and screened light are used to introduce and control daylight. A large section of roof is sloped facing south and would be used for either photovoltaics or solar collectors.