Innovative ceiling installation by architect Hamish Shaw, featuring a spherical design that enhances acoustics and light, creating an inviting reading area for the Physics Room Art Gallery's group exhibition in Christchurch.
Group Exhibition: 'Thinking about building'
Sophie Bannan, Andrew Just, Amiria Kiddle, Mark Leong & Nick Sargent, Nicholas Mangan, Hamish Shaw, Blaine Western
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Hamish Shaw
Lounge den 2014
Architect Hamish Shaw has designed a radiant ceiling feature - a prototype for a house renovation - that creates an inviting reading area for the exhibition. The original project was based on the idea of enclosing a space to create an atmospheric environment that maintained a strong relationship to the outside. The spherical ceiling works to both illuminate and provide acoustic dampening. The curved detailing draws attention upward, the structural grid extrudes into the space like a sun pressing down from above. Shaw has provided a space that is illuminating, a constructed phenomena that engages the senses.
Melanie Oliver - Director
Type: Installation / Group Exhibition
Client: Physics Room Art Gallery
Collaborator: Ben Sitler (Arup)
Size: 4sqm
Location: Christchurch
Status: Completed
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