by Richard Murphy Architects
Client Galeri Caernarfon Cyf
2019 Welsh Architecture Award
The initial purpose of the Galeri Creative Business Center in Caernarfon to generate a resurgence of the artistic industries of the region, as well as arrangements for contemporary, flexible and medium-sized representation spaces in the city. The original construction, completed in 2005, is a combination of theater/rehearsal spaces and small offices for new artistic companies. He controlled bringing combined studio spaces for artistic industries with theater spaces, fusing an intensely-used construction, critically, all day and night, with a colorful core and an indoor community.
Internally, the marriage between the busy core of the public and the network spaces of the existing construction, poles and streets, with the new arrangement of the front and cinema, has been an integral component to safeguard the continuous dynamic and extensive use of construction. . The key to the good fortune of enlargement in the expansion of the original construction is the architect’s ability to sculpt an uninterrupted chain of public spaces between the two interfaces, while providing new effective residential spaces for the customer. The new extension connects to existing construction traffic in the 3 degrees interior, the shape of the extension advances outward with a series of parallel sloping roof volumes.
Providing a new extension to a building that is already a success, without distracting or competing with its original unique warehouse shed aesthetic, or compromising its continued enjoyment through the public, is not an insignificant achievement here.
However, the new extension is incredibly successful in intelligently integrating into a small, complex site, and successfully manages the wide diversity of external audiences and distribution with demonstrable ease to provide an even larger audience by providing more advanced input.
The architect surrendered to the original shape of the building, proportions, locations and design firms, but equally generous in offering the site with something new, but with strict and controlled delivery. The use of zinc fabrics and shapes provides a new state of the new and future phase of the site, but complete and does not overwhelm the original site or building.
A satisfied visitor who returns an architect for “more” with any public construction is a smart sign of a successful relationship, a valued delivery and a well-received construction built into his network and region. This construction extension is no exception and provides transparent signaling on site; is a fair contextual reaction that is familiar with the evolution of the client file.
Interior 1169 m2
Entrepreneur R. L. Davies – Son
Structural engineers create engineering
Environmental Engineers / Hulley S-E – Kirkwood
Cost Consultant / Quantity Expert CPC Project Services
Project Management CPC Project Services
Acoustic Engineers Sandy Brown Associates
Firefighter consultant Atelier Ten