Viewing
a new house…
Pablo: It’s going to be
part art gallery.
Fred: So that’s why it has
no windows?
Pablo: Just so. Except
for little slits to let in a little light.
Fred: Shy paintings?
Pablo: To protect their
delicacy.
Fred: I saw a museum
recently with slitty windows.
Pablo: To protect the art?
Fred: Actually it was a
military museum. The slitty windows were a motif for gun slits.
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Voice-over
Architects sometimes draw
inspiration from nature or culture.
An aquarium might
be designed as a round shape, like a seashell.
Or a military museum might
recall a gun turret.
As in the Waiouru Military
Museum...
4 comments:
When people try to imagine a gallery that they haven't seen, one crux question is, "how much wall?"
Windows might be kept minimal for the simple reason that you can't hang a picture on a window...
A couple of weeks ago I was facing the task of turning an airy atrium looking onto an estuary into a gallery for 30 or 40 paintings. You are quite right, it is difficult to hang a picture on a window. Mainly because the glass breaks when you try to hammer in a nail, but also because light floods in around the frame and you have to squint hard to see the picture. But there's also the requirement of hanging watercolors in a dim room so they won't fade as quickly. The compromise was to hang curtains, which rather restricted peeps of the estuary.
Today I was at Gallery SU in Azabujuu
http://gallery-su.jp/about/index.html
It's an apartment in an old wood house with big windows and gorgeous light - and I wondered was that such a good thing overall... or was I just dim?
This is quaint. With a Kapital K.
A galley in rooms that coexist with other rooms.
Especially like the physical entrance and the digital entrance. F2F and CMC!
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