marek
This project entailed the design and construction of new offices for a booking and management agency for photographers. A gallery, booking area, executive offices and a conference room were the required programs. The space, located on the top floor of a former industrial building in the Chelsea section of New York, was completely raw.
Making reference to the camera, public to private is mediated via a series of "shutters"- operable aluminum louvers act as dynamic wall while large steel sliding doors aligning across rooms and halls allow the space, in its entirety, to be opened or closed. In the corridor, a silver mesh laminated between plates of glass creates an opaque metallic sheen by certain angles of light, constantly negotiating feelings of expansion and containment. Sanded homosote, the color of shadow, wraps from bench to gallery walls to booking area, threading the spaces together with a warm tactile material that also sets off the black and white of the photographs and the silver tones that reference the silver print. Light and shadow, the very substance of photography are manipulated throughout to enrich the experience and the understanding of the photograph.
Location: New York, NY