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Gallery + Archive in Derry
The Gallery + Archive proposed here for a vacant site on the walls of Derry was Oileán's final project at QUB. Born of rather lucky stakeholder engagement the project was completed in collaboration with the Void Art Centre who offered guidance and feedback on the developing work.
Visiting Derry with the brief to design an archive a visit to the Void ended with Mitch Conlon, the Art Centre's Head of Sustainable Growth introducing Oileán and a fellow QUB student (Oliver Hopkinson) to the gallery's archive. A collection of work that had accumulated over the past years and decades from previous installations and even previous galleries.
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Gallery + Archive in Derry · development view 4
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Taking this brief adaption Oileán proposed a new, more suitable archive on Bishop's Street in Derry, including a gallery. The project aimed to offer a new scale to the creative spaces in Derry and draw attention to the city as a centre of culture, building on the reputation the city has cultivated in recent years.
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Controversially the proposal cuts out a 3m² portion of the city wall to create a path into and through the gallery, reconfiguring how visitors interact with the area. The main body of the glu-laminate timber structure of the gallery is located parallel to the wall, cantilevering over on it's first floor. The timber grid of the gallery and archive are intersected and broken by in-situ concrete cores providing the buildings entrances, service, circulation and WCs. Alongside further variation in exhibition spaces and a ground floor café interacting with a new public courtyard space.
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