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Adaptive Reuse of Jackson's Garage: A Cut in the Grey
Object Type: architecture drawing
Artist/Maker: Medina Uriarte, Lucia
Date: 2018
Awards: RGU Architecture Purchase Award
Classification: Architecture
Description:
Semester One
Statement:
The design for the refurbishment of Jackson's garage developes from the understanding of the existing building and how it has been affected by time. The design takes the building as a timeless entity and understnds that anything else to ever happen in it is just temporary. The building, currwently broken into pieces that have no pragmatic relationship to each other, is to become a single element, a frame within which everything else happens.
Rather than dividing the volume into smaller rooms, the space is distributed through the positioning of service cores, keeping the space as a single unit, but allowing different functions to exist. The boxes provide the user with the bare minimum requirements that any occupant might have (bathrooms, storage rooms, and routing risers of any other service), allowing for the easy chage of functions in each space through time, leaving the rest of the plan free for time - and people - to take over.
The building is to be celebrated in all its aspects, so all surfaces are exposed; the history, the layers and the rawness of the materials all become visilbe. The whole building invites occupation and the flourishing of art within everyday activites. If a piece of floor is available, it is free for anyone to use.
Similtaneously a void in the centre cuts through all existing structure; a gallery. The most permenat change applied to the building, signifying the timeless nature of art. A ring around it, acting as an access coridor, separates the ritual contemplating of art from the mundane. The wall of the inner ring are translucent to allow light into the sections and project it out like a plantern; a light calling us to explore the gallery and the light of art illuminating the greyness of the everyday.
Object Number: ABDRG2018.515