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    Amelia Brown

    Vestiges of the Material and the Immaterial | An Extension to Dulwich Picture Gallery

    North Elevation Histories of Care and Destruction | exploratory drawing Section | archive, workshop and residence Structural isometric Section | constructing the gallery and curating its exhibits A gallery | exhibiting present and future

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    Addressing the specifics of collage, the proposal comprises a series of temporally bound ‘accretions’ that support the London Festival of Architecture’s biennial Dulwich Pavilion programme.

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    Located in the gardens of Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, on the ground of Sir John Soane’s unrealised quadrangle scheme, the proposal assembles a temporally layered conversation with context. Its structures speaks to the present visibility, through surfaces and site-lines, but also to the invisibility of remnants and layers that are revealed through exploratory drawings.

    Placing communal collaboration at the fore, the proposal’s accretions [a gallery, residence, workshop, archive and garden restaurant] extend the Gallery’s current programme, whilst reviving existing construction skills and knowledge through a new programme that supports the long-term conception, production, construction and maintenance of the pavilion installations.

    Moments of differing permanence are defined tectonically, through a language of arches. The barrel vaulted forms: a temporal re-writing and deconstruction of the arch, construct a certain familiarity. They recognise the blind arcades which characterise the Picture Gallery’s elevational surfaces, through a reiteration of their datums, whilst uncovering and foregrounding their temporal alterations: affording continued conversation with the existing.

    Brick [reclaimed London Stock brick and construction waste brick produced in the proposal’s workshop] is employed as the primary construction material, placing the proposition in dialogue with the material and textures of the existing Gallery and the immaterial traces of the local brick making past.

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