Prato studio

Art Project Space Fitzroy

The studio explores architecture for cultural exchange and designing spaces for art within the urban environment of Fitzroy; one of Melbourne’s oldest Victorian Suburbs sitting on the Kulin Nation named Ngár-go land. Students explore an architectural design process for generating space and form which include conceptual ideas in the final architectural experience. A tool set of strategies which may be adopted to generate proposals focussing on the ARTSpace gallery program.

ARTSpace will provide art spaces as a cultural incubator allowing for diverse emergent contemporary art practices recognizing the central role of art in the community while providing meaningful encounters with different art forms. ARTSpace shall house galleries flexible for curation to facilitate programs (all mediums) and back of house facilities.

The studio investigates different spatial verbs which designers adopt and communicate ideas and concepts including design research, spatial verb development, space as form, program and brief analysis and testing. Consultation with MuMa Gallery at Monash University provides an analogous model for designing the ARTSpace.

Studio Leader: Anna Nervegna

Image: Toby Reed