Tashkeel Art Gallery Interiors
Tashkeel Art Gallery Interiors
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
LOCATION
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Project Facts
Project Extension and Renovation of Tashkeel
Client The Ruler’s Office
Size 97,500 sq.ft BUA
Services Architectural Design, Interior Design, Landscape Design, MEPD Engineering, Fire Fighting Design and Engineering, Irrigation Engineering, Commercial Kitchen Design, Interior and exterior Wayfinding design, Quantity Surveying, Specifications, Tender Issue and Administration, Tender Evaluation and Award, Construction Supervision
Status Construction Contract Awarded
Budget Undisclosed
Project Features
Public Entrance Lobbies, 4 Art Galleries, 1 Retail Space, 1 Flexible Presentation space, 2 Seminar Rooms/ Breakout Rooms, Frame Retail Space with Framing Workshop, Visitor Lounge with Pantry, Prayer Rooms for men and women with attached ablution areas and WCs.
Artists Separate Entrance lobby, 26 private Artists’ Studios, 6 Freelance Start-up Groups Spaces, 1 Communal Workspace, Personal Storage Space with 20 lockers, 1 library/ Social Space with a Pantry.Â
Workshops Childrens’ Art Centre with WCs and Storeroom, 1 Digital Lab, 1 Print Room, 1 3D Printing/ Jewellery Making Lab with separate attached rooms for 3D Printing, Heat Press and Laser Cutting, Photo Studio with a Photo Preparation Room, Dark Room, and Store, Mixed Media Lab, Fashion Design Lab, Printmaking Lab with Store, Textiles Lab with Store.Â
Gyms Separate Male and Female Gyms, each with a Lobby, Reception, Waiting Area, Changing Rooms with lockers, shower, WCs. Sauna and Steam Rooms, Group Exercise studio and Main Workout Studio and Stores.
Dining 80-pax Restaurant, 20-pax Cafe, Commercial Kitchen, Chef’s Office, Kitchen Admin Office, Kitchen food and non-food stores, General Storerooms and Garbage, Guest WCs.Â
Staff Director’s Office with attached WC, Dep. Director’s Office, 2 small Admin Offices, 2 large Admin Office, 1 Finance Office and Admin Storeroom.
Support Delivery Area, Good Lift & Lobby, 2 passenger lifts, 4 Art Stores, Retail Store and Office, Generator, Telephone Rooms, Electric Rooms, Garbage Rooms, WCs.
The interior design of the extension and renovation of the Tashkeel Art Gallery in Dubai has duality in design to reflect the two internal states of the building: industrial and Creative. All the workshops positioned were re-positioned into the existing building over the two floors. The limited ceiling heights, and reduction of room sizes for circulation and fire egress, resulted in a more industrial feel of this space, here the services are ceiling mounted, housed in black piping running across the surface of the walls with surface mounted fittings and fixtures. All the swing doors were replaced by black powder coated and oversized top-hung sliding doors. Woodend doors are floor to ceiling and frameless. These are also the tying thread between the two styles as well as the use of black metal framing.
In the new Tashkeel building, the entrance is bright double-height space with an uninterrupted view of the garden. The flooring is a custom designed mosaic, as well as the reception desk that takes inspiration from the building’s architecture, and akin to a single element sculpture pointing towards the ramp to subtly guide visitors to the public spaces, and above which hang minimalist lighting the define the reception without cluttering it.
The Art Shop has custom designed joinery work for a wide type and sizes of art equipment. Like an arabesque silk carpet, the floor mosaics flow onto the ramp and then to the public foyer, connecting all the public spaces. The gallery floors are polished poured concrete with brass inset at their joints. These inset brass trips extend out to the public foyer, ‘stitching’ the two spaces together.
Ribbed glazing to the lecture rooms and meeting rooms, all with minimalist black framed sliding doors provides privacy to the occupants. The spiral staircase is simple and designed as fluid continuation and terminus if the angular ramp form traverses the entire public space of the building, hanging in the triple-height spaces like a feather suspended in air.
The artists’ studios are all finished with white walls and concrete-poured floors to avoid any disruptions to the creative process. They enjoy a view of the gardens and benefit from scattered sunlight, giving visual relief to the occupant. The studios, centered around the planted green courtyards, are accessed from industrial style mat-black-powder coated metal frame doors – same as those used in the ‘industrial’ zone of the development. The gyms are finished, again with minimum decoration, through the focus on their facilities and the large expanse of glass and view of the adjacent woodland.
