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| Leeds City Art Gallery – Yorkshire UK
Interior screen proposal
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The concept for the glass screens, proposed to flexibly divide the gallery cafè from the new education room, is derived from the ideas of interactions within the creative process, in public places and in the gallery situation.
Manifest by the rhythm and dynamic movement of the glass fracture, at intervals ‘sown’ by the tensile lines of ‘stitches’ which contrast with the ambiguous fracture line, the screen attempts to produce a visual metaphor to its position and use.
Constructed from 3 layers of float glass, the outer two goughened panels protect the fractured glass as well as the sandblasting, etching and gilding to their inner surfaces.
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| Space interactions: vision and reflection |
| Denise mt Basso |
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| Studio/living room window
Hammersmith London W6 UK
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Visual intrusion through the lower sections of this window was a major consideration. Screening, integration and ambience are of equal importance to the interior space, so through-vision was mantained in the upper sections, opening a connection to outside views and adding to the quality and feeling of space within.
The design, with reference to traditional Chinese screens, provides integration via transmitted light to the room and by reflected light to the exterior. The effect is reversed with artificial light, but from both aspects the function and visual qualities are mantained.
Glass enamels, silk screened and fired to the glass surface provide colour, design and image on an architectural scale. The use of multiple glazing, for thermal or security purposes, provides the opportunity to use differing layers in the design with interesting visual results. In this instance allowing the colours to relate specifically to the interior (gold) and the exterior (white).
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| Integration and ambience |
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| Southampton University, Hampshire – UK –
A foyer window to the Hartley Library
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Storage and retrieval of information, the theme of the window is inspired by the Library itself, as a means of transferring, developing and creating knowledge, seen as a fundamental feature of the living environment.
The window depicts a nucleotide sequence of the DNA code of a growth hormone, from research in the biology department of the University. DNA is nature’s most fundamental information- processing mechanism. Also depicted is an image to represent the silicon chip, the most powerful information –processing device yet invented by man.
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| Transfer of knowledge: ‘DNA…….AND’ |
| Ray Bradley |
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