Final Concept

The final gallery design was based around maximising the outdoor public space created, and composing an accidental gallery experience that encourages members of the community, who may not usually venture into a gallery to have look around and bump into others from the community. The gallery would once discovered become a casual meeting spot that people would return to several times a month, noticing new installations and rediscovering old. The design attempts to partly return the site to its precolonial state, with open, quiet space. Another feature of the sites precolonial condition was the abundance of Kangaroo Grass, which can still be found in and around Newtown growing out of cracks in the road and through fences. For this reason Kangaroo Grass used as roofing as well as decoratively, to bring the precolonial condition of Newtown into the consciousness of the community.

Two tall masses suppurated by small gaps between each other and the nearby buildings, makeup the facade, passers by can catch thin short lived views through these gaps, through the gallery and into the public space on the other side. Because of the orientation of the site sunlight will burst through these gaps, projecting a thin line onto the pavement.