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The Portland Collection Gallery
Welbeck, UK, 2011—2012

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A floating roof above the walls preserves the walls and controls light to the gallery spaces. The three existing walls and the new roof therefore protect the spaces below from a high proportion of sunlight and daylight, and temper the light, which is a fundamental part of our concept, to more appropriate levels for a gallery. The inverted ‘pitched roof’ form creates a memory of the original glass roof to the gallop, and by projecting the roof over the walls into the entrance courtyard, makes a signal to the outside that there is something special within to be explored. Colouring it a deep terracotta colour reflects the brick walls of the gallop to the outside, and at the same time initiates a language that deals with the artefacts through colour and materiality, avoiding the typical gallery experience.

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Design Team

  • Gianni Botsford
  • Anahi Copponex
  • James Eagle
  • Mike O’Hanlon
  • Hiroshi Takeyama
  • Geoff Whittaker

Consultants

  • Arup, Environmental Engineer
  • Metaphor, Exhibition Designer
  • Todd Longstaffe-Gowan Landscape Architects, Landscape Architect
  • Arup Lighting, Lighting Designer
  • Arup, Structural Engineer
  • Peter Guthrie, Visualiser