Art Display Spaces- Scale

Art Display Spaces- Clusters

Massachusetts Art Museums

Revised Site Analysis Map

Pink - Site

Green - Large Scale Open Spaces

Orange - Gallery Spaces

Blue - Museum Spaces

Red - School Gallery Spaces

Programatic Statement

Programmatic Statement:

A headquarters in the central location of the Fort Points Art Community will provide a place for artists to work and discuss their art. From this headquarters artists will be able to determine which of the numerous venues to display art, from spaces ranging from a traditional white box gallery to exterior large-scale site specific space such as Boston Common. A potential satalite space would be Castle Island located in South Boston. This space has a large public exterior space, smaller interior spaces (Fort Independence), a smaller exterior courtyard space, close proximity to the water, and beach space. This site has many different site instances allowing the various art types to be displayed appropriately.

Thesis statement

White box: A proposal for dynamic gallery spaces

Art museums/gallery spaces throughout history have been typically static spaces in which the art must adapt, or suffer the consequences of being out of place. The idea that the spaces can adapt/change/move depending on the artist’s desires and the type of art could be very innovative. The scale of the spaces in this facility will vary greatly depending on the art it is responding to. The facility will have the ability to transform and adapt to many different kinds of art depending on artists’ needs including but not limited to the change of seasons. This facility (or series of facilities) will be constantly changing keeping the attention of visitors as well as the interest of all. It will go further than just having a movable wall, it will transform the way we think of art spaces in the 21^st century.

Full Scope

Green - Open space/large venue sites

Red - Existing gallery spaces

Yellow - Museum

Blue - Castle island and Fort Points Art Community

Main Site

Fort Points Art Community

- Located near the ICA

- Current facility for the community is small

- Close proximity to water

- Large adjacent parking lot seems like a potential site for a new larger space

- Could enrich the industrial quality of this area

- Could be too close to other galleries and museums (overshadowing?)

Potential Satellite site

Castle Island

- Open Site

- Existing Historical Fort could be used as retrofitted gallery space

- Close Proximity to water

- The destination point of many recreational activities, and tourists

- Far enough away from large grouping of gallery space currently in Boston

Experiential Narrative- Artist

You are the Artist; you circulate the building to enter through an entrance leading to your studio space, in which only you know the location. This is a personal space in which you and only others you let in occupy. This is a place of process and work, which can be short or long term, it is your creative domain. You not only see “behind the scenes” this is the place where you create the scene. You can stay in this space for a long or short period of time; it is at your discretion. You decide when the work is “done”; you decide the setting and space this work will be presented in, alone or with others. It is your choice, no more WHITE BOX, the architecture responds to you and your work.