Jewel Gallery
Type: Material - Gallery Fit out
Proposal: 2004
Client: Private
Collaboration with: Kristjan Donaldson / Space Consultants
The primary focus of this proposal concerns a confrontation and mediation of the scales within and around the project. The gallery is experienced from four distinct viewpoints: the distant and fast moving view; walking past; from within the gallery, and finally viewing the pieces in the display cases.
The extension of the gallery along the façade with the inclusion of a narrow, display space was an opportunity to establishes an urban scale identity along the entire street front. Moving into the gallery, the space of the immediate entry is contained; the ceiling lowers to compress the space, mediating between the scale of the street and the initial experience of the gallery. Within this compressed space, the visitor is at first greeted by the human scale of their own shadow, reflected in a polished segment of the large display object. Contained within this polished surface sits a small display case, positioned to place the preciousness of the objects it contains within the reflection of the viewer. To one side of the entrance the work and client consultation area is considered an opportunity to step inside the precious display space, as it folds and peels away from the shell of the space.
