PRISTINE, ELEGANT, IMMACULATE
The Art House in Newtown, presents itself confidently as a supremely refined, neutral space for showing art and it's moments of cool elegance and transending can astonish among a vibrant, busy bohemian street life in the Sydney suburb of Newtown.
SITE PLAN
The gallery is subtle and sophisicated rather than sexy.
As a reflection derived from it's artist Michael Zavros, the gallery comprises machine made crisp linear forms and a series of rectralinear volumes, planes and slabs inter-woven by public and private courtyards.
Sharp lines give it that subtle yet modern feel which Newtown screams out for. The gallery is modern art itself and a divining space for its artist to display beauty and grandeur for any occassion.
Visitors entering the tubular-like entry, present themselves past a series of smaller galleries through to the lobby. Here a large artium-like void, give striking glimpses of galleries and circulation areas above, drawing you to a view of underlying beauty.
FLOOR PLANS
Visitors standing on the first floor galleries can look down into the center lobby through a two-storey floor space, with a bridge connecting the two larger gallery spaces together.
The galleries on the first floor, from a brige traversing the space, draw your eyes down through a soaring clear glass white window wall, with vertical thin timber blades, filtering the light through out onto the subtle yet formal courtyards which speak their own language.
Behind the gallery exhibition, another rectalinear volume linked by a bridge from the first floor, houses the artist studio workspace, coupled with a cafe, entertaining space for any exhibitions and functions.
STREETSCAPE AND ELEVATIONS
CROSS SECTIONS
CROSS SECTIONAL LIGHT STUDY THROUGH SECTION OF GALLERY 2
The section cut through Galley 2, shows light penetration into the gallery, demonstrating the controlled light within this space. The walls within Gallery 2, to the northern side have a folded form which continues through to the ceiling space as shown in the sections. Light bounces off the different folds, walls and ceilings, directing the light towards displays within the gallery at different times of the day. The void allows light to filter through the upper floor washing the two storey wall.
