The building to be ambience

To be opposite to a picture

The most of about 850 works of art expected as a store product of Maebashi are planar works like oil painting, a Japanese traditional painting, pictures in watercolors, so I think that "What kind of space meets it to be opposite to a picture?"

We suggested here is a gallery that is removed lighting equipment or an air conditioning outlet from a wall and the ceiling, it is very simple and named "Ghost". Though there is not it here other than the two: a person and the picture, temperature and humidity of the space are kept a fixed, and illumination and the stillness that are necessary for appreciation are secured.

What is "Ghost”?

I use the word "ghost" as the general term of the gallery among the seamlessness by a white Teflon film. A ghost has a meaning of "the soul". Here, I regard it as "ghost" in a meaning of the soul to be in the vacant space. In the Teflon film penetrating light and temperature, so if I operate an environmental parameter outside of the film, it can control an environmental condition of inside space surrounded on a film. You see only a wall and a ceiling such as the background. The space of lightweight film structure is fixed to a pillar and a beam by the steel frame and wire.

A complete white cube

In establishing air conditioning equipment, humidity control equipment, lighting facilities outside the film of "the ghost" the inside of "ghost" becomes the complete white cube which does not have illumination and the all of the air conditioning outlet.

Facilities under cover of the back

In turning on a lighting equipment outside the film of the ghost, I plan the illumination that the part of a white wall glitters darkly, it keep non-glare-light that most suitable illumination for the picture. Because a source of light does not reflect in the surface of the glass, do not disturb appreciation. In addition, it is kept a fixed temperature and humidity if the outside temperature of "the ghost" is controlled without establishing the air conditioning outlet.

Backyard

The backside of gallery space cut by "ghost" is used as backyard lines of flow of import courses.

I utilize the empty room of the center city area.

An empty room rate is high in the site outskirts area, and effective practical use is expected. I scatter a small "ghost" in the future in the space room of neighboring buildings, it can be provided citizen's GALLERY such as the satellite of the citizen museum and workshop space, an artist condominium.

Reasonable existing repair plan

By this plan, I remove a floor slab and a small beam partly, but I do not add a hand for a pillar and the girder, so there is little influence to give to the main structure department of the main body. Because an RC wall of the decorations is a non-structure wall, it can largely reduce self-respect by removing these, Structure performance improves for a long term or earthquake proofing. And, because the inside finish chooses lightweight materials, it reduce structural load.

Principal-in-charge : Fujino Takashi

Collaboration :Agata design Inc. SNARK

Consultants : Suzuki Akira／ASA EOS+ Okayasu Izumi Lighting Design Maniackers Design

Design : 2010.12 - 2011.02