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Ark/8 · 115 S La Brea
SPACE 65′ × 65′ · ~14′ clear
COLUMNS 2 U’s · 14′ open lane between
WALLS 2 × 4′×8′, 4 faces
HANGS E 2×2 of 12×18 · W 2×2 of 16×24
ROUTE 8′ → 10′ → 14′, always opening
RIG trapezoid 8′→10′ · 4 × 32″ back-to-back
STAGE 4 decks 4′×5′ · 10′×8′ · DJ
PROJ 36′ at 0.8:1, 29′ throw · off view — entrance
Crowd
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Ark/8 — Installation Model
Massing study for the Auda art forum at Ark/8, 115 S La Brea.
Modelled at 1 unit = 1 foot.
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overviews — entrance, plan, lane, rig, projection
6 – 9
standing in the room at eye level — door, through the rig, on stage, at the bar
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The route
Flats
two 4′×8′ double-sided — a standard sheet — on the rig's short-side line, each centred on a column U
Prints
two flats, four faces, both hangs on standard 3:2 so nothing is cropped. East faces carry 12×18 landscape in a 2×2 — uniform 4″ between all four and to both edges. West faces carry 16×24 portrait in a 2×2 — uniform 5⅓″ between all four and to both edges, centred with 21⅓″ above and below
Rig
trapezoid, 8′ opening out to 10′ toward the stage; screens back to back, facing both ends
Columns
two U’s — each pair joined by a tiled plinth, 14′ open between them
Widths
8′ → 10′ → 14′. The route only ever opens out
Stage
four 4′×5′ decks in a 2×2, 10′×8′ at 12″, DJ booth set back, the sea behind
Getting out
Storefront
the full south face, on La Brea
Fit rooms
the one opening in the north wall — the rest of that wall is solid
Lavatories
west wall, immediately right of the bar; the hallway runs west with Lav 1 and Lav 2 off it
What is drawn from what
Shell
the 65′×65′ space, column line, storefront and the two openings, from the Ark/8 floor plan
Finishes
white tiled columns and plinths, suspended garment rails, the oak counter, the fit rooms, pale polished floor and exposed ceiling — all from photographs of the room
Dressing
the room as it will be on the night: the gallery-wall side cleared, the run by the bar struck, the two runs by the stage down to their rails
Installation
flats, rig, screens and projection — the proposal, not the building
Plan is orthographic. That view switches to a parallel
projection, so walls stay parallel and you can scale off it — the 5′ floor
grid is the ruler. Every other view is a normal perspective camera. Drag in
the plan and you drop back into perspective, because you have stopped
measuring and started looking.
Not a survey. Dimensions are scaled off a floor plan
drawing, not measured on site. The column line, storefront and back-of-house
openings are positioned to about a foot. Verify anything load-bearing,
anything you are ordering material against, and the ceiling height before
you build to it.
Projection, measured. The lens sits 29′ off the
wall. A short-throw lens near 0.8:1 gives about a 36′ wide
image — that is what is drawn. At 16:9 that raster stands 20′ tall
against a 14′ ceiling, so the content is letterboxed to the 12′4″
that fits and roughly 40% of the projector’s pixels land on the ceiling
and floor. Covering the whole 65′ wall instead needs 0.48:1 at this
distance, or two units edge-blended, or one much further back.
