Kavellaris Urban Design’s Concept:
JARtB House reconnects the abandoned notion that Art and Architecture are separate, techne. Part House and part Art Gallery, the synthesis of the two typologies are redefined into a singular expression. A new hybrid is institutionalized.
Photographs by Peter Bennetts
Art is used to connect, inform, and program space instead of the program containing it. Art is not defined as ‘in’ or ‘on’ the building, the building is the artifact Architecture and Art cannot be separated!
Photographs by Peter Bennetts
Art moves beyond cultural expression and becomes architectural syntax. Ornamentation becomes more than architectural decoration, more than Venturi’s Decorated Shed or Duck. JARtB House becomes the Alchemy of the ‘Decorated Duck’ expressed in an urban Neo-Baroque paradigm.
Section courtesy of Kavellaris Urban Design
A controlled chaos of interlocking geometric forms sculpts the facade to cultivate theatrical drama. The façade is internalized and redefined. External facades become internal translucent frescos. A two-way façade typology emerges.
Non-spaces of circulation are redefined into a delineated linear programmatic pure white ‘strip’ traversing the entire length of the site envelope. The art gallery is born. Double-height spaces, interlocking volumes, and visual links are connected through Art. Art informs architecture and program, Art becomes an architectural element, and Art now has utility.
Photographs by Peter Bennetts
Project Info :
Architects: Kavellaris Urban Design
Manufacturers: Connected Living, Digiglass, Lights & tracks, Modcons, Parthenon Marble
Lead Architect: Billy Kavellaris
ESD Consultant: Enrate
Land Surveyor: BPD
Structure: O’Neil Group
Area:525 m²
Year:2020
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