Guy Hollaway creates photography studio with concrete pyramid for X-ray apparatus
Guy Hollaway Architects has completed a studio for British photographer Nick Veasey, featuring a concrete pyramid chamber to house the X-ray equipment used to create his distinctive works.
Standing alone in an open field fringed by woodlands near the village of Lenham in Kent, the Process Gallery was designed to be an "inquisitive piece of architecture".
The photography studio comprises two elements: a low volume housing a workspace and small gallery, and a tall X-ray chamber, linked by a heavy metal door.
Together, they are designed to "expose" Veasley's artistic process to the public, from the capture of X-Ray images to their post-production and eventual display.
"We decided to put the gallery in the same position and east-west orientation as the former big shed", said Hollaway, "using robust but contemporary material such as corrugated metal cladding."
The low, corrugated metal-clad gallery volume is defined by a large picture window inspired by a camera lens, articulated externally by an angled wooden reveal.
Skylights help to flood the gallery's simple plywood interior with light.Â
The tall pyramid X-Ray chamber, reminiscent of Kentish Oast houses, takes its form from the splay of the X-Ray machine, which can be hoisted up and down the space ? "the higher the X-ray machine, the larger the object which can be captured", explains Hollaway.
"In the same way the form of Oast houses was driven by their function, thi...
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