Folding and Floating

the basic section of the floor plan visible from above shows the basic geometric shapes used to construct the model.



Both artist use discarded material ,to some extent,in creating their pieces thus keeping this in mind the building must embody the green thinking of the artists'.This can be achieved in a variety of ways but the most evident is the visible aspect of the building be it the floor,stair or the facade.
The stairs coming down from the top floor are concrete and to add another dimension to them they have a mixed in pieces of broken glass which gives them a 'raw' Mosaic look.The stairs going up from the bottom studio are concrete with metal lattice and glass facings.Reprocessed old grills from buildings have been shaped to make the lattice that is then laid on top of the poured concrete.The screen under the concrete stairs coming down from the top floor is woven polythene supported with metal wires running throughout for support.


The top story is Rosalie Gascoinge's Studio the idea of folding space has been expressed in term of the multi directional triangular planes that comprise the roof and also the floor,the uneven and random pattern of the arrangement corresponds to the nature of the material the artist uses.Eg the triangular protrusions could represent a pile of rubbish from where the artist recovered raw materials.

The bottom floor is Fiona Hall's Studio,taking inspiration from the artist's dead in water the the floor is a free floating plane supported by small metal pillars.the vertical rising glass planes give the boundary an impression of being curved, looking through the glass gives one the impression of looking in or out of a tank of water due to the refractive property of the glass.