After collecting measurements of the gallery, I produced a draft of a 1:50 plan for the space on butter paper. This exercise I found time consuming as I needed to be careful and accurate and because the Te Ara Poutama is such an old building, it had many smaller details to consider. Below is a photo of my draft plan.
From here I started to express the thresholds in the space on my plan. The thresholds I wanted to explore were movement and light and temperature which I explored through colour. My main focus was on movement and how it correlates with the space. I expressed the heavy and consistent traffic that occurs outside the front of the gallery on Wellesley St. I showed the flow of people through the lobby outside of the gallery and then the flow throughout the gallery. Linking to my Project 1, I wanted to show how people entering the space move from a state of awake in the busy streets of Auckland City to sleep in the darker end of the gallery. As a person travels into the space they experience going through the threshold of awake and sleep as they move from a very public and busy street to a quieter and dim lobby space, into the brighter, less public gallery space and then down the gallery towards a darker area.
Spatial Design by Ciara 