Thursday, July 22, 2010

Raffles Institution Art Space


We are being commissoned by RI to design the Entrance Foyer as
well as the Main gallery area of the Art Space, which is a building in the
school campus housing all things related to Art (like studios for Fine Arts,
Music, Pottery, Design etc.)


We need to make the Entrance Foyer very visible and visually stimulating
so that one can tell instantly that it is building for the Arts.
We thus decided to create 2 new entrance portals, which are both Sculptures
as well as giant Frames at the same time.



The larger frame is a portal for a flight of steps painted epoxy
red and leading up to gyms and other activities rooms on the 2nd floor.

The smaller frame is a portal for entry into the Main Art Gallery on the 1st floor.
Hordes of paintings (students' works) are displayed and celebrated in a random fashion all over double volume height walls.

We want to give prominence back to this Art haven.