design studio 6
adaptive re-use
instructor
Steven Beites
year
2019_april
art gallery
of sudbury
sudbury, ontario
46°29'19.8"N 81°00'15.2"W
How does the role of time alter our perception of space and experience?
The Northern Brewery as an industrial building functioned as a machine, that relied on speed and efficiency. However, the driving design concept for the brewery to be
transformed into an art gallery was to contradict the past paced environment into a slow and intimate space that allows the user to be one with the space and the art. Revealing the brewery’s materials begins to convey to the notion of time along with its interplay of light and shadows that begins to render intimate and sensual experiences. Specific frame views urge visitors to explore the past and the present of the building and its surroundings which would always stay in constant change.
19. Experimental Gallery
20. Permanent Gallery
21. Temporary Gallery
1. Lobby/Cafe
2. Outdoor Patio
3. Gift Store
4. Art Studio
5. Equipment Storage
6. Workshop
7. Staff Room
8. Administration
9. Curators Room
10. Lab
11. Mechanical Room
12. Temporary Gallery Storage
13. Permanent Gallery Storage
14. Experimental Gallery Storage
15.Receiving Dock
16. Receiving Room
17. Service Room
18. Storage Elevator
Experimental Gallery
Permanent Gallery
Temporary Gallery
Administration
Art Studio
Outdoor Patio
Lobby/Cafe
Storage/Receiving
Circulation
Used Space
Unused Space
Case study drawing of Diane Landry’s work titled “Exhaustion”
This piece was chosen as part of the permanent art work at the gallery .
“Exhaustion” is to be viewed as if one was listening to musical album, which can only be achieved by understanding it from start to finish as the installation completes its cycle.
Its use of a kinetic sculpture along with its interplay of light,
shadows and sounds begin to invoke a sense of space that is controlled by it.
The object aims to create a dialogue between
the repetitive overconsumption of material that has been started by industrialization which the brewery represented at one point.