Week 8: Finally!

Experiment 1, after a long-overdue debut:

What would a person experience when travelling across and around the structure?

The above-ground gallery and workspace belongs to Louise Bourgeois. The theme of her above-ground structure is of a monolithic building that plays with superhuman scale. There is only one texture, appearing to look like stone blocks from a distance - the rough texture adds to a feeling of an ancient form of materiality. Her art pieces are disguised as rock outcroppings, one of which protrudes out of the side of the above-ground structure. I have also decided to omit any built-in roof covering so as to let a stream of natural light from directly above - the artist in-residence can attach her own impromptu shelters on any platform or staircase landing as she wishes.

Stelarc's artwork, displayed on a convex canvas in the middle of the piping array

The monolithic structure serves to hide any notion of the below-ground gallery and workspace intended for the second artist in-residence - Stelarc. His structure follows the theme of expansive industrialism, using pipes, tubes and tunnels to achieve this purpose. There are two entrances, one on the outside of the above-ground structure, and the other in the centre of the entire complex. Both entrances takes a visitor through a transparent tube that peers into a larger space enclosed by a rounded glass cube. Stelarc's artpiece is prominently placed in the centre of the piping assembly, as if "plugged" into some kind of artistic machine.

Cross-section looking from an elevational perspective

Cross-section looking from a plan perspective

My file unfortunately is much too large to be reduced to the 10 mB limit imposed by Google Warehouse, so I have instead posted a link for the Sketchup file here. 

Warning: This file can only be opened in Sketchup version 8 or later editions.