Rozelle Creative Core

| Working through the medium of collage, interview and infiltration Art storage, a studio lead by Matthew Bennett challenged us by making back of house our priority. The studio aimed to subvert the banality and inherent design-negligence that befalls storage, we used the medium of collage to dissect ten projects that demonstrate storage innovation. From these explorations we set out to exaggerate the qualities found and then combine them with the qualities of another working towards a set of diagrams and spatial constructs to deploy on site.

After creating a form that at scale spanned half the harbor it was a matter of rationalization and transforming to suit context. The blocks size, orientation, moments of joining and intersection shifted throughout the design process. What also began was the dance of solid and void for when each block shifted the binding voids fell in and out of the envelope making what was void into a material form.

The project developed into an interchange of patrons and art made the center of the project with the 4 institutional types radiating off, each enabled by the core and the support block. The 4 scales range from the grandiose traditional gallery stripped of its beaux-art cladding, to the pragmatic model of self-storage allowing for accessible artist driven space. Each are built to the scale of the items stored allowing for voids to puncture through. The Blue for the public access and exhibition, the magenta for Art movement and storage. The blocks are held together and interconnected through these outwards to the landscape and to long distance connections for overseas distribution and loans.