One Person?s Gallery in the Gap, Shanghai
One Person?s Gallery in the Gap, China Art Studio Development, Museum Property, Chinese Architecture Images
One Person?s Gallery in the Gap, Shanghai
Studio Building Development in China ? design by Wutopia Lab
4 Dec 2017
One Person?s Gallery in the Gap
Architects: Wutopia Lab
Location: Shanghai, China
One Person?s Gallery in the Gap
Archaeology
One Person?s Gallery used to be a storage structure which filled with used materials (we called them old things) of a bankrupt company looked like disaster site. The project started without any original blueprints.
The architect got an inspiration when him watching the workers cleaning the space. He decided to use the arch as the motif of interior design. Instead of cleaning up the trash, the architect decided to make use of it and tried to turn it as an advantage. The old furniture was replaced as decorations in the library and courtyard, some of the old doors were reused, and others were reconstructed as ceiling.
Some unpredictable effects were found and kept deliberately by architect when exploring the site. This is the reason why the architect took the project as an archaeology work.
Antithesis
The proposition of antithesis could originate from Chinese rhetoric, like the Yin Yang. If we took one side as the old, big, dark, a bit dirty, hidden indoor commercial cave with ornaments the other side would be the new, small, bright, neat, highlighted outdoor art workshop. From this notion of antithesis, the idea of the one...
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