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PROJECT REPORT: CULTURAL, CIVIC & FAITH BUILDINGS
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An important element of BDP’s methodology focuses on ensuring visitors can distinguish between the original designs and the later additions
today.” Despite BDP conceiving the design before the artwork was commissioned, this combination of art and architecture has “elevated the experience” for visitors travelling between floors.
The rotunda balances the composition of the garden elevation and has become a “centrepiece and icon” for the project, says Artis.
External connection With certain elements of the new additions impacting on the visual and physical connections to the outside, the project involved reconfiguring the external landscape. Central to this was the enhancement of the visitor’s journey from how they travel from the street through to the forecourt, before arriving at the new entrance. This new entrance boasts a glazed door surrounded by faience tiles and stone, “a nod to the teal and gold interiors.” The entrance’s transparency offers a view all the way through the building to the garden. The architects worked with traditional craftsmen as well as more modern methods to create contemporary forms which also referenced the past, using new as well as old approaches. The external faience
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panels were produced by UK firm Darwen Terracotta using a combination of digital drawing, hand carving and CNC machining to form the zig zag profile (inspired by ziggurats on the original house). By contrast, Cantifix developed frameless glazing, including large format, curved and integral doorsets. Before the Perrin Wing was built in the
1920s, the garden had a stronger presence from the street. Part of BDP’s goal was to restore this connection as much as possible. To achieve this, four new openings in the ground floor reception area have been introduced, allowing the garden to be “part of the welcome and orientation” of the museum, along with other “key curatorial themes” of the museum. The reception space serves as a place for visitors to relax and familiarise themselves before entering the house.
Situated adjacent to the reception area beneath the Winter Studio, the De Morgan Cafe now occupies a space that was formerly outdoors. To maintain the feeling of openness, BDP has enclosed the area with full height frameless glazing, all while incorporating Yorkstone flooring into the design.
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