Ark/8 — Installation Model

Massing study for the Auda art forum at Ark/8, 115 S La Brea. Modelled at 1 unit = 1 foot.

Moving around

drag: orbit
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1 – 5: overviews — entrance, plan, room, wall, backdrop
6 – 9: standing in the room at eye level — door, among the suspended panels, on stage, at the column line
0: back to the entrance view
, .: fewer or more people — the same four steps as the Crowd row
[ ]: step through the placements — the same four as the Work row
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Where the work lives

The set is landscape and portrait together, so each placement is a different way of handling exactly that. Switch from the Work row or with [ and ]; send one on its own by adding ?work=b to the link.

All three: twenty pieces each — four large (two 4′×8′ upright, two 8′×4′ on their side) and sixteen at 24×36 / 36×24. Every option arranges the large ones differently too. Minimum clearance anywhere is 3.6″; nothing touches
A: align the centres. An upright anchoring each end, the two 8′×4′ stacked at the centre, the sixteen in two hang lines between. The eye tracks the centre line rather than the frame edges, so mixed formats sit together without any looking dropped
B: align the bottoms. The four large stand on the floor against the wall, bottoms level at 1′2″ to clear the deck — two upright, two on their side. The sixteen stand on suspended shelves out in the room, same idea smaller. The order changes by sliding, not re-hanging
C: abandon alignment. The large pieces sit at four different heights and two orientations; the sixteen fill the pockets around them. Every position placed rather than computed — which is the point. The only one of the three that takes a late addition without the wall being re-set

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: the prints, the stage panel and the DJ stand — 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.