Dustin White | Visiting Assistant Professor College of Architecture | Texas Tech University

DALLAS | PERFORMATIVE GALLERY STATEMENT PROJECT TWO

ARCH 3501 : Architecture Design Studio 4 _ Fall 2011

BRIEF |

Located on the edge of the Dallas skyline and adjacent to the performing arts district and recent constructions from OMA + Rex (Wyly Theater), Foster + Partners (Winspear Opera House), Allied Works, and IM Pei, lies an open site with proximity and access to the DART line of Dallas, downtown, art district and the performaing art district. This will be the location of the studio proposal for a creative Performative/Con-temporary Gallery. A hybrid space which is dedicated to contemporary creativity arts and architecture. A place where performance art, ar-chitectural installation, fashion and cinema can meet.

What |

The second project we will investigate in this studio is a Performative /Gallery space located on the edge of the Dallas skyline. The location of the project provides a unique opportunity to accommodate a stop on the heavily populated DART line. This will provide users with instant access to not only the proposed gallery space but also to the neigh-boring performing arts district. The site is an urban condition in a rapidly evolving area of Dallas, with the construction of 4 performance driven constructions and a new museum by Morphosis not far away. A unique opportunity to propose a hybrid space which acts as a transition from performance to gallery to occur. This proposal acts as a filter for users to be exposed to more experimental performances and exhibits before transitioning into the heart of downtowns existing performance halls, galleries and museums. You will be examining these types of work and asked to research and be aware of types of contemporary work.

This Space seeks to accommodate, adapt, be flexible, and allow for experimental art, architecture, cinema, fashion, installations, and performance to occur. An adjustable framework that allows the architec-ture to be flexible and accommodating to the user who is performing or installing their work. An opportunity arises to create a highly func-tional proposal in which examines a series of intense site conditions and design parameters. You will be examining how people transition to and from the DART line and also around the site such as Interstate 45, and pedestrians around the site. How you create a structural system which is able to span a large gallery/performance space? How the build-ing itself or the buildings facade can create a canopy for the platform of the DART line? Also how you will respond to contextual and site conditions in the design process? The structure will need to be multi level design with a minimum of 2 floors and maximum of 3 floors. That provides the appropriate life safety standards and ADA accessibility.

Your proposals will seek to expand on the previous concepts, ideas, and structural systems from project one. This will provide a greater under-standing of how to implement the concept into a complex site, and learn from details which may or may not of been fully resolved from the first project. Using the same or a similar structural system will allow you to add greater detail and fully resolve all major connections, primary system, and secondary system.

PROGRAM |

PERFORMANCE / GALLERY :

One large performance/gallery space and one small gallery space will be part of the proposal. The large gallery space will need to be a long span structure which allows for an open plan, which can be utilized by the user and installer. The space will need to plan for adaptability of various sizes of work that are constructed as installations (objects), paintings, video projection, dance, music, etc. The space needs to be accessible, and consider being an extension into the landscape and surrounding context. The small gallery can accommodate small works and digital media driven works.

| Large Gallery _ 1000 sqft

| Small Gallery / Screening Room _ 200 sqft

OTHER PROGRAM :

| Lobby / Lounge _ 200 sqft

To facilitate the needs and accommodate its staff and employes.

| 3 Offices _ 120 sqft x3 = 360sqft Workroom for material and exhibit prep. Must have a loading dock attached.

| Workroom _ 250 sqft

| Loading Dock _ Seek appropriate resource to plan for door size and dock dimensions.

| 4 Toilets (2 male 2 female) _ 450-500 sqft. Total

| 1 Storage _ 1 Mechanical Room _ 50 sqft Each

Roof Deck / Outdoor space - are spaces which allow installations to filter outside the enclosure and allow the public to engage unique work.

| Roof Deck / Outdoor space / Integrated Landscape _ Optional

| Platform _ Designed through elevating the building or extension of the facade. Must comply with accessibility standards set forth by DART.

| Core _ Fire Stair and Elevator

| 15% Ancillary or Circulation Space - 422 sqft

| TOTAL _ 3000 SQ FT approx.

RESEARCH :

| Core specifications

| Life SAfety

| ADA Accessibility

| Further development of structural systems and connections

| DART Line

| Performance Spaces

| Gallery Spaces

| Contemporary Art Work

6L LT ARCHITECTS

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Glass blocks are lodged into the masonry of the south and east walls, transmit-

masonry within the concrete frame, the locations of the blocks telegraph thestructure and program of the building through its skin. They are a new form ofaperture based on aggregation and density, not on the frame, proportion, or sizecharacteristic of punched or ribbon windows.

MORPHOSIS

MAXXI MUSEUM | ZAHA HADID

MAXXI MUSEUM | ZAHA HADID

ARTHOUSE | LTL ARCHITECTS

DALLAS | PERFORMATIVE GALLERY

ARCH 3501 : Architecture Design Studio 4 _ Fall 2011

REQUIREMENTS FOR SUBMITTAL _

Will be defined by the instructor according to the assignments given out during the process of the project.

As stated in the syllabus precision drawings, sections, sectional dia-grams, perspective drawings/renderings, and a series of small models will be required. A process that goes from analog to digital, and “vice versa”, will be highly encouraged. The work accumulates step by step, it is incremental, and in progression.

FINAL Requirements ;

| Narrative Statement

| Diagrams (site_structure_concept)

| Context Images

| Site Plan

| Floor Plan

| Axonometric | Section Perspective

| Traditional Section

| Wall Section

| Perspective Views (2-3) - optional

| ADA Diagrams

| Physical Model

*Note | scale of drawings will be defined by the instructor previous to their due date.

*Note | Final Presentation Guidelines will be provided prior to the project’s due date.

Dates |

Assigned | October 19

Final Review | December 6

* Late Work is not accepted and will result a failing grade.

* Dates are subject to change with notification by the instructor.

Links :

DART :

http://www.dart.org/

MOMA :

http://www.moma.org/

Geggenheim Bilbao

http://www.guggenheim-bilbao.es/idi-oma.htm

*Other links and information will be provided on the course blog through-out the project.

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One large perform

ance/gallery space and one small gallery

space will be part of the proposal. The large gallery space

will need to be a long span structure w

hich allows for an

open plan, which can be utilized by the user and installer.

The space will need to plan for adaptability of various sizes

of work that are constructed as installations (objects),

paintings, video projection, dance, music, etc. The space

needs to be accessible, and consider being an extension into the landscape and surrounding context. The sm

all gallery can accom

modate sm

all works and digital m

edia driven works.

| Large Gallery _ 1000 sqft

| Small G

allery / Screening Room

_ 200 sqft

| Lobby / Lounge _ 200 sqft

To facilitate the needs and accomm

odate its staff and em

ployes.

| 3 Offices _ 120 sqft x3 = 360sqft

Workroom

for material and exhibit prep. M

ust have a loading dock attached.

| Workroom

_ 250 sqft

| Loading Dock _ Seek appropriate resource to plan for door

size and dock dimensions.

| 4 Toilets (2 male 2 fem

ale) _ 450-500 sqft. Total

| 1 Storage _ 1 Mechanical R

oom _ 50 sqft Each

Roof D

eck / Outdoor space - are spaces w

hich allow

installations to filter outside the enclosure and allow the

public to engage unique work.

| Roof D

eck / Outdoor space / Integrated Landscape _

Optional

| Platform _ D

esigned through elevating the building or extension of the facade. M

ust comply w

ith accessibility standards set forth by D

ART.

| Core _ Fire Stair and Elevator

| 15% Ancillary or C

irculation Space - 422 sqft

| TOTAL _ 3000 SQ

FT approx.