Photographer’s Gallery
Lacemarket, Nottingham
Year 1 Final Project (7 weeks)
Designed as a gallery and a home for a photographer, the structure takes the shape of bellows from an old large format camera and incorporates a room-sized camera obscurer to view outside the building. The entrance has a 1st floor walkway connecting the gallery spaces across the ‘bellows’ and the photographer’s residence is towards the back of the site. Most of the façade has been set back to break up the street pattern. It is a narrow medieval street, and by opening up the façade, better views of the building and open space away from the road are created.
The building is steel frame and is clad with engineering bricks. Although they are not the same colour, using bricks still fits with the local vernacular. The roof is zinc membrane and flat green roof.
The site was a Car park in the Lacemarket district of Nottingham. It has a rich history of Lace Making running back to Medieval times. The Nottingham Contemprary Gallery is very nearby and has been a big influence on how to make the proposed structure contextual.
