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Unprimed Canvas : The Deteriorating School for Conservation

WIP - Perspectives at A0

Unprimed Canvas : The Deteriorating School for Conservation

Aerial Plan - Axo

Unprimed Canvas : The Deteriorating School for Conservation

Canvas Wall / Cloud Room in the Eroding Threshold

Unprimed Canvas : The Deteriorating School for Conservaion

Canvas Wall / Floor System - a Palimpsest of People

Unprimed Canvas : The Deteriorating School for Conservation

Project Location

20180130 - Plan & Cross Section Progress.

Organisational Diagram + Precedent.

Organisational Diagram Sketch A continuum between Cold to Warm ( Left to Right ) - Pertinent to project in that Light, Heat & Humidity all contribute to the degradation of canvas.

1. Aedicule 2. Dressing Room - For visitors who opt to ‘suit up’. Suits are to amplify the frictional degradation of canvas in the Eroding Threshold. 3. The Eroding Threshold - Frictional Degradation ; Wear & Tear. Main circulation space, parallel to the King’s Library. 4. Records Repository - Compile and mantain a full ‘Conservation Record’ for every piece of work in the school. + Digital Analysis Lab + Storage of exposed and unexposed x-ray films - kept at a constant 21°C. 5. Storage Facilities 6. Conservator’s Workshop - Different Rooms with different qualities will be further defined. 7. Conservator’s Studio - Not actually flying ! Different Rooms with different qualities will be further defined. 8. Wood Workshop - for the fabrication of support for artworks. 9. Varnishing Room 10. Restroom 11. Library for the Unprimed Canvas - Library for different types of fabrics. Conservators will learn how different fabrics degrade differently in response to the constantly changing heat & humudity from kitchen nearby. The library is to punch into the central tribune of King’s Library ; which on itself was initially built as a library to house 62,000 books before they were moved to the British Library, establishing a relationship with the King’s Library and its past. 12. Kitchen + Cafeteria 13. OUTLIER FROM CONTINUUM The Hospital - For the storage and care of more fragile / ailing paintings. Positioned on the first floor of 3 Montague Street, restoring the previous site of John Handerson’s collection into a storage / repository of sorts. 14. OUTLIER FROM CONTINUUM Visiting Artist’s / Conservator’s Residence.

Name for spaces a work in progress.

Draft : Aedicule Design Perspective Base Drawings ; will continue to iterate Aedicule 3D Model.

Christmas Break Aedicule Reworked Plan and 3D Model Progress Update

Design has been re-iterated to further develop the layered spaces. There is more variation in height, in relation to the spaces' right of light and canvas size. Also working on a roof-frame system that is pinned onto walls facing the aedicule, onto which different types of the unprimed canvas from the textile glossary will be pinned onto, now taking more advantage of the narrow site. The roof is tailored for the the individual studios/workshop's right of light as well, activating different spaces at different times of the day.

Plan of Action

2nd Jan - 4th Jan : Continue Working on 3D Model.

Including :

Roof : Pinned, Suspended System ( How exactly is it pinned onto the walls ? )

The Curtain Walls ( Test-piece can be seen in the current model )

Furnishing

Adding Different thicknesses to floor

Details on walls facing the Aedicule

5th Jan : Base Render of Key Plans & Sections

6th Jan : Base Render of Perspectives ; Priority :

1. Main Conservation Studio ( Inner Layer ) looking out onto street through Outer layer spaces. 2. Arrival 3. View through the King's Library at the British Museum's window onto Aedicule

7th Jan : Touching Up Drawings

Term 1 Work - Link to Issuu Document

The portfolio is formatted as a draft for the TS3 document. What is lacking is of course annotation, will come together soon.

Behind on schedule for the 3D model and therefore all drawings planned.

Updates on the 3D model of Aedicule on site will follow, along with plan of action for the next few days.

Term 1 Final Jury Feedback

Base - Connection - Infill : A Stratregy for Layering Space. Good strategy not fully explored.

Spatial Arrangement has to be more Compressed to reveal specific spatial tactics.

Ground Condition is Missing.

Try Different Thicknesses on Floor + Roof.

Colours !

Comments from Ed Bottoms :

Central Idea is good.

Patching up the gaps in the British Museum.

How do you train people ? What are the attitudes, philosophies of conservation/restoration of art and how has it changed over the years?

What are the technologies involved ? How has that changed as well ?

Christmas Timetable

As of now, I am still missing a set of drawings to communicate the architecture.

Some drawings / diagrams showing the technologies ( or even philosophies ) behind the conservation of art on canvas is missing as well, which I think is important moving into next term, these will also be implemented in the TS Book.

Technology : Might focus on the locking / pinning of fabric ; it is important for the project and has not been developed as of yet. Will decide soon.

by 26th Dec : Revised Plan & Section, will be working on 3D Model of Building as well.

by 1st Jan : Sectional Perspective + Interior Perspectives encapsulating essence of project ( that is the Layering of Space. )

by 3rd Jan : Adding Aedicule into Radical Foundations. Format All work into Portfolio for submission of full Term 1 Portfolio onto Issuu.

Ongoing : Diagrams / Drawings showing Technologies & Philosophies behind the Conservation of Art on Canvas. Implement into TS Book.

PS. Will not have internet access from 21st - 29th Dec but will still be working on it.

20171128.

Floor Canvas, Spillage ?

Consider thickness of armature in relationship to lightness of operations of the spaces.

Crafting of architecture through a set of more particular variants, more task - specific spaces, carefully crafted - too generic at the moment !

Work with dimensions of a specific painter’s work - Caravaggio & Joseph Wright of Derby suggested.

Large overhanging, draping canvases - echoes of space ?

Slots for art to move through.

Bring delicateness, sensitivity of Boro drawings in.

Corrent model to be quickly developed as a massing model.

Develop pin-joints ? How is the fabric held up ?

20171124 - TS Jury Feedback.

Hard for jurors to tell location of site and aedicule. Wider Bloomsbury Map needed needed needed.

What is the technology of weaving, new and old ?

What is the technology behind art conservation ?

Look at the Cy Twombly Pavillion by Renzo Piano.

Be Specific about what you‘re trying to do.

Ergonomics Study too generic.

Technologies for moving art.

Two strains in research : Fabric & Conservation.

Knowledge on these will build the project.

Response :

Research & Design to be done in parallel, not much time left.

Focus on the preservation of paintings on canvas.

Horrible presentation, re-visit, re-iterate Who, What, When, Where and How.

20171107 - Progress : 26 - Rule Translation.

“Layer-y things, Danc-y things and the Fan-y things”

20171024 - Jury 01.

Feedback :

+ Good range of notational drawings.

+ How do the three ecologies interact or connect ?

+ An archive of varying value + time commited.

+ Inaccessible garden is interesting.

+ Garden / Hotel / Street / Museum

+ Xenakis Notation

+ Link between movement of linen and movement of people ?

+ Linen description was good , Ed Wall : “ That’s the project. ”

+ What is the priority ?

+ Look up Lawrence Halprin - RSVP Cycles.

+ Christo and Jeanne-Claude

+ Notation : How you make a bed.

+ Thread count, unprimed canvas ?

+ No sense of hierarchy in presentation.

Progress update on main axo, left with annotation and ( perhaps ) adjustments in colour.

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