Art Gallery Design

benwheels · 14 Oct 2009, 03:41

Hey Guys,
I am a long time viewer of the sketchucation forums but have never contributed. Thought it may be time to start. These are some preliminary renders for a College project that I am currently completing. Its not due untill late November, so I still have time to tweak and change.
Any comments and criticism are very welcome

boofredlay · 14 Oct 2009, 03:44

What a great layout.
Nice work and welcome.

benwheels · 14 Oct 2009, 03:51

Thanks Boofredlay
Now I have the fun task of building a physical model.
I just found the unfold ruby in the forums, somehow I think this may come in very handy.

d12dozr · 14 Oct 2009, 05:53

Looks good - nice design!

Have you given thought to ventilation of auto exhaust in the basement? From what I can tell the only vent to outside is the ramp, then on the other end of the basement the stairwell opens up inside the building - this would cause fumes to enter the building directly.

benwheels · 14 Oct 2009, 06:25

Hi d12dozr,

Thanks for the comment, glad you like it You have a very good point, I will have to mechanically ventilate the basement in order to avoid this. Thanks for the tip.

cadmunkey · 14 Oct 2009, 11:35

You've done a real nice job for a college project. Good luck with the rest of it.

Daniel · 14 Oct 2009, 16:43

Very nice, benwheels. Both design- and presentation-wise.
There's a few inconsistencies you might want to address:
Your ground plan has shadows, but the other two do not.
Your title is in the lower right corner on the first two boards, but in the middle on he third; plus, it's partially obscured by the image.
On the first two boards there is a clear separation between the images, but on the third one you've attempted to blend them together.
No graphic scale!
Are you required to worry about handicap accessibility at this time?

olishea · 14 Oct 2009, 20:05

lovely presentation on the sections

teofas · 14 Oct 2009, 20:07

superb presentation!!

benwheels · 14 Oct 2009, 22:26

Thank you all for the kind words

@unknownuser said:

Daniel on Wed Oct 14, 2009 5:43 pm

There's a few inconsistencies you might want to address:

Are you required to worry about handicap accessibility at this time?

Hi Daniel,

Thanks for your comment, I agree with you on the inconsitencies in the presentation, this was done quite quickly for a critique a few weeks ago, I plan on tidying these up for the final presentation, I will take your comments on board. I also plan on adding some materiality to the dark grey mass (Still not entirely sure what I'm going to use yet) Any sugestions anyone? I was thinking some sort of perforated composite panel, possibly encorporating some white leds into the facade, making it look like a glistening stone lit up at night. May be a bit over the top, but I think it could look quite good done relatively subtly.

As far as the handicap access, yes it does have to be a fully inclusive design, which I'm pretty confident I've got covered. There is access in the middle of the outside paving to the entrance which is level with natural ground, so no reason to ramp. Also an internal lift. There is also a disabled ramp down to the lowered outdoor paved area to the rear of the building, this isn't noted as a ramp, I will make this a bit clearer for the final presentation.

sepo · 15 Oct 2009, 10:07

Could you tell us what soft did you use to render the images with?
BTW nice and clean presentation.

benwheels · 15 Oct 2009, 10:45

Hi Sepo,

Rendered in Kerkythea with Photoshop post. Plans drawn in Revit and coloured in photoshop, Just very basic 3d in revit to work out basic planning.

Daniel · 15 Oct 2009, 14:13

I've sent you a PM regarding your accessibility.
Please post your final boards after you've tweaked them.