Linear Gallery - Final

Continuing with my concept of stacking cubical bays that cut through four levels of stacked floors (derived from my previous project) - to make the linear gallery go vertical so it runs deep under ground and emerges like a tower above the ground. The next step was to create a modular system to develop the concept further. I chose one bay of the gallery, I made a 12'x12' cube, and studied it by exploding the 4 sides and thinking of how light would penetrate into the space and how adding furniture could make the space a place to sit and pause, contemplate. Then i stacked the cubes into columns and created rows and switched their orientation alternatively. After this study i created a vertical bay that comprises of the same cube but it's now stacked vertically one top of the other and I have taken two floors slabs out so I get a space that is more than 36' high and 12' wide. And then I created a horizontal bay based again on three cubes combined but this time it gave me three rooms and the height remains at 12'. I finally meshed the rows of vertical bays with the cubical bays and horizontal bays with the cubical bays. By doing so, it generated an interesting overlap of spatial conditions. I chose to show one in my perspective on the left with scale figures in it. So the vertical bay which is 36' high and 12' wide is shown and behind that is the cubical grid that I meshed with the vertical bays. It creates a series of tall expanded spaces and narrow compact spaces. The horizontal bays, vertical bays meshed with cubical grids can be seen on the drawing on bottom right. The bar that runs at the bottom shows my concept drawing and the process though which I achieved this system of structure. The big back ground image shows the facade of the grid system with a close of the cubical bay. I also used orange in the cubes to high light them from the vertical and horizontal bays.