White Cube Gallery Bermondsey London Casper Mueller Kneer Architects Copyright Paul Riddle 01
An interior precedent for long exhibition corridors utilizing an industrial expanded-metal ceiling grid and rhythmic linear lighting to structure deep space.
- What we like about this project
- The expanded metal mesh ceiling completely conceals services while turning the entire overhead plane into a luminous optical filter.
Materials
- expanded-metal-mesh
- painted-plaster
- concrete
- steel
Visual identifiers
- expanded-metal-ceiling
- linear-lighting
- gallery-corridor
- white-cube-walls
Style tags
- minimalist
- industrial
- contemporary
- monochrome
Visual tags
- exhibition-space
- linear-perspective
- monochrome
- industrial-finishes
- art-gallery
- Geometry
- Perspective-driven linear gallery corridor framed by smooth white walls and a continuous gridded ceiling system, converging toward a distant brightly lit opening.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame gallery conversion with suspended ceiling grid system.
- Spatial scale
- Expansive gallery corridor, scaled for large crowds and monumental art circulation.
- Lighting
- Linear fixtures integrated within the ceiling grid cast an even, rhythmic wash down the length of the hall, supplemented by bright natural light from the far end.
- Atmosphere
- Clinical, precise, and sharply atmospheric with strong directional focus down the long hall.
- Environmental context
- Interior exhibition space of a contemporary art gallery.
- Spatial experience
- A strong sense of procession and perspective pull the viewer down the long gallery hall, balanced by the rhythmic glow of overhead lines.
- Composition rhythm
- One-point perspective with a repeating transverse rhythm of linear lights and ceiling mesh panels.
- Style reading
- Industrial-minimalist exhibition architecture
- Program
- Art gallery exhibition corridor / circulation
- Perspective
- Interior Spatial
- Discipline
- interior
- Materials
- expanded-metal-mesh, painted-plaster, concrete, steel
- Visual identifiers
- expanded-metal-ceiling, linear-lighting, gallery-corridor, white-cube-walls
- Style tags
- minimalist, industrial, contemporary, monochrome
- Visual tags
- exhibition-space, linear-perspective, monochrome, industrial-finishes, art-gallery
- Geometry
- Perspective-driven linear gallery corridor framed by smooth white walls and a continuous gridded ceiling system, converging toward a distant brightly lit opening.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame gallery conversion with suspended ceiling grid system.
- Spatial scale
- Expansive gallery corridor, scaled for large crowds and monumental art circulation.
- Lighting
- Linear fixtures integrated within the ceiling grid cast an even, rhythmic wash down the length of the hall, supplemented by bright natural light from the far end.
- Atmosphere
- Clinical, precise, and sharply atmospheric with strong directional focus down the long hall.
- Environmental context
- Interior exhibition space of a contemporary art gallery.
- Spatial experience
- A strong sense of procession and perspective pull the viewer down the long gallery hall, balanced by the rhythmic glow of overhead lines.
- Composition rhythm
- One-point perspective with a repeating transverse rhythm of linear lights and ceiling mesh panels.
- Style reading
- Industrial-minimalist exhibition architecture
- Program
- Art gallery exhibition corridor / circulation
- Perspective
- Interior Spatial
- Discipline
- interior