White Gallery
WHITE GALLERY
[SHIFT] Process Practice
ARCHITECTS
[SHIFT] Process Practice
ARCHITECT IN CHARGE
Rambod Eilkhani, Nashid Nabian
PROJECT MANAGER
Nazanin Javaheri
BMS CONSULTANT
Hooshmand Ava Co.
CONSTRUCTION
[SHIFT] Process Practice
CLIENT
Farid Akhavi
STEEL WORKS ENGINEERING
Hesamodin Raoufpanah
ELECTRICAL CONSULTANT
Vahid Ghasemi, Reza Nazari
CONSTRUCTION ASSOCIATE
Homayoun Homavandi
TEAM
Rambod Eilkhani, Nashid Nabian, Ehsan Karimi, Parnian Ghaemi, Dorna Mesrzadeh
MANUFACTURERS
Apame, Namachin Esfahan, Noorsa
PHYSICAL MODEL ASSOCIATE
Shervin Daneshi, Momen Faghihi
STRUCTURAL CONSULTANT
Sarvin Structural Consultants, Pedram Mosahebi Mohammadi
MECHANICAL CONSULTANT
Sarvin Structural Consultants, Pedram Mosahebi Mohammadi
AREA
726.0 m2
YEAR
2016
LOCATION
Tehran, Tehran Province, Iran
CATEGORY
Gallery
Text description provided by architect.
The White Gallery is an architectural exercise in realigning the potentials and limitations of "in-fill" typology when it comes to creating a performative space for exhibition of art work.
The explicit and deliberate difference, in both figuration and configuration of the interior and exterior of the project, highlights the challenges to be faced in juxtaposition of the duo of typology and program.
The project is simultaneously extroverted and introverted:
From within, the space is organized around the core idea of maximized sectional continuity.
The continuum reaches outward while being maintained inside.
Spacio- sectional porosity allows for layering of the perspectival views it offers the spectator.
From the outside and at first glance, the project is conceived and meant to be perceived as an autonomous and solid object and a composition of abstracted Euclidean forms with an utmost level of opacity.
This is in line with the dense morphology of the surrounding residential context.
Just like a " Cabinet de curiosities" the historic predecessor of museums and galleries, the White Gallery appears as a puzzling representational space, not to be decoded unless one enters its space of representation…
For the facade of the building we decided to go for a white modular material to emphasize on the abstractness of the platonic forms of the project.
Hence, the white industrially produced bricks of Namachin Esfahan were chosen.
