Art Space of the High Line

Thesis Project 2007

IDEA AND SITE:
The Corner of Gansevoort and Washington Street, at the High Line’s south end in the Meatpacking District. New York City. This project takes part in the idea of transforming the old High Line into public Park area. To let it remain a place for site-specific exsperimental art and to let it maintain the creative atmosphere it has today.

PROGRAM:
An Art laboratory containing
- Exhibition spaces / circulation area
- Workspace for artists;
digital media lab, photostudio, visual art studio
and wood and metal shop.
- Event space and café

FOCUS:
This project seeks to provide spaces within the High Line’s historical architecture for the exhibition and the creation of experimental art. The design creates galleries and paths, that automatically link people from street level to the level of the High Line Park. The design allows art to closely integrate with the High Line’s overall identity by including it in. In this way, art, architecture, and urban context fold into a single, unique experience. Art’s role in metropolitan living is removed from the gallery and actively incorporated into the cityscape. Art becomes part of the public space and a part of the 24-hour life in the Meatpacking District.
References:
Gordon Matta Clark - Palais de Tokyo, Paris - Ps 1
Contemporary artcenter, New York City - Storefront
Gallery, New York, by Steven Holl.



CONCEPT & FORM:
A static workspace structure +
A generic and open showspace structure combined through split levels and visual contact.
The generic part provides show spaces, circulation space and event spaces on roof and on the High Line.The materials are exposed steel and concrete decks, which lead up from street level through the building and integrates with the park paths upon the High Line.
All the facade screens are open and layered in such way that the transition from the street becomes fluently and the position of the gates and walls create visual and physical connection. The materials are steel, wire mesh for attachment of banners and poly carbonat for projecting videos. The Workspace part contains the different workshops and 4 cores that provide the non flexible functions as bathroom, technical rooms etc. This part is indoor with a climatescreen, where as the open part is not.

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Transcape - Gibraltar

- Residential Living along the coastline of Gibraltar

9th Semester, 2006

The main purpose of this project was to create residential
housing on Gibraltar, south of Spain.
I chose to work with the east coast line where the clifs are
high and terrain is very inaccessable.
The proposal deals with this context and it tries, throughout
the form to addapt to the form of the landscape surface.
In contrast to all the new apartment buildings on Gibraltar,
this poject integrates with the landscape and the
surroundings, and it respects, with its form, the history and
the nature of the site.

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Danish - Arabic culture institute

Bryghusgrunden
Copenhagen 2005

The main purpose of this project was to create an institute of Arabic and
Danish culture, in order to improve the relation between the two cultures.

To accomondate that I designed a form that consisted of two building parts:
-A part that would function as a space for exhibition and meeting place +
bridge for walking. -A second part that would function as a provider of
cultural activities, such as library, cafe, movie theatre, and art school.

Linked together by a structure of big scale wood frames, they would
integrate with the context, and in that way lead people through and
provide space for both informal meeting and classes in cultural activities.

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Highschool of the Future

Oerestaden, Copenhagen
Bachelor Project 2004
Elected for Presentation at Conference 2005
http://www.tinalouise.dk/


The focus of this assignment was to create rooms for
learning that accomondated the new 2005 Highschool
reform in Denmark. I chose to put my focus on the need
for flexible learning space for the students.
To create an open and dynamic part that would create
contact and circulation throughout the builing and at the
same time create social meeting points and flexible earning
environments. Furthermore I envistigated how rooms can
influence the mental state of mind and create better
conditions for learning.
I put focus on the visual and physical contact.
That, together with a fluently circulation and accessibility
will create social meeting and thereby better conditions for
learning. Throughout the building I dealt with implicit borders,
such as translucent panels and split levels. This would create
partitions but in the same way maintain the visual contact.
The form of the building consists of three parts:
- The X zone that connects the building with
context and create connection and circulation.
+ create flexible space for learning and social meeting
- A programmed and closed part for classrooms and laboratories.
- The facade shell that emphazises the X zone and
creates the formlanguage and expression.

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