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ARTIST'S STUDIO
(2017)
BRIEF:
Salvador Dali is the project client. The project requires the design of a place in which the artist might work - a studio. Brisbane City has previously been identified in many ways a busy and overpowering place and what the artist requires is an Oasis in the city. The designed studio should be considered to be a sanctuary, retreat, a place of respite or a refuge.
It could be generally considered to be a ‘nice’ place in the middle of a ‘not-so-nice’ place. Above all else it will contrast with the environment it is located within - it will be the opposite of the City. These ideas of contrast and opposite will be crucial in the proposed design of the studio.
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RESPONSE:
Extensive research of Salvador Dali and his artist's portfolio was undertaken for this project to understand the 'imaginary' appropriate requirements for the user.
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The form was directed by analysis of his work, with the concepts of time, space and life itself recurring in Dali's paintings. Themes continuously repeated through symbolic elements were melting clocks, abstracted animals and most commonly the representation of the egg - symbolising life or birth itself.
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The egg became motif for project, exploring qualities of melting this traditional form seen in exploratory models. 'The Architectonic Angelis of Millet' was the primary artwork studied for the project. it explored an abstract relationship between male and female forms. To contrast, Dali's personal love life has historically been a point of contention, so for the purpose of this project an abstract form symbolising a male to male relationship was explored.
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Cues were taken from the existing Dali museum in Spain as well as from ideas pertaining to abstracting representations of parasitic architecture explored by Lebbeus Woods that drew correlations to Dali's fundamental artistic concepts.
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Considerations of natural day-lighting requirements for the exhibition artwork; as well as the light required for painting were incorporated into the final triangular spider glazing facade.
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