Threshold, Intervention and Section Drawings
I was sitting by Chancery square until I saw the shadow of the tree being cast on the floor infront of me. While thinking about factors that link the internal space and the external space together, I thought tree was a good medium that connects the inside and the outside. In an interior space, people tend to grow plants as a refreshment, because plants serve as evidence of nature, in the middle of an interior space that is filled with man-made objects. In an exterior space, often trees give the adverse effect. Being surrounded by trees in places like the forest, individuals may feel like they are in a private space despite them being in an opened public space.
With such idea in mind, I created the first draft of my threshold drawing. The key idea in the drawing was light and dark and flora. The intensity of the shadow was shaded in depending on the area of the gallery, with the shadow of the window frame also being illustrated. Branch like white streaks were made in order to represent branches of trees but I thought the drawing did not portray the relationship between the flora and light and dark.
So a second drawing of the threshold was made. I wanted to represent the immediate reaction that I got when I entered the gallery. The northern side of the gallery, with a central window, had natural light coming in. The light faded while running across the gallery. I decided to leave the rooms as part of the obscurity. They are not visible unless one enters the dark corridor, which I thought links to the uncertainty of dreams in terms of sleep/wake. I used flora as a medium to represent light and dark. The flora is concentrated on the southern side where the gallery is dark compared to the northern side where it is sparsely placed.
In terms of interventions, I did not make a lot of changes in the gallery space. I have removed the fake wall in the middle of the gallery to allow the natural light from the northern side to fully run across the gallery. I have also created an extra window near the northern window to increase natural light coming into the gallery. I did not want to open up all the existing hidden windows of the gallery to not only control light flow but also to add on to the idea of privacy and obscurity. The threshold moment I wanted to focus on is the left turn once one enters the gallery walking towards the northern window. I wanted to replicate the feeling I got from walking through Albert Park towards the fountain, where I felt like I was in a private space despite being in a opened space. Thus I have placed pillars leading to the window to create the same chamber-like look the park has.
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