Architect Project - Description

Kazuo Shinohara designed a museum that I used as the basis of what I would design in terms of his architectural style. I decided to design an art gallery. The art gallery was designed with intricate shapes and materials to coincide with Shinohara’s ideas. The front of the building I decided to make mostly glass to let in natural light as well as the side curved walls of the top of the building. With this, I used his idea of combining metal and glass by making metal bars to separate sections of the glass. Most of the building was made with metal material, which I was very skeptical about because not a lot of structures are built mainly with metal. The sole purpose of this building is mentioned in the building type—an art gallery. In order to figure out certain dimensions, I searched up other art galleries and estimated dimensions in order to fit the standard qualities of an art gallery. Overall, the design was very simple and ordinary but it stands out from other gallery structures because of the certain materials I used.