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
← ↑ ↓ →: orbit, without a mouse
scroll / pinch: zoom
+ −: zoom, without a wheel
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
B W F P C L G: toggle a layer on or off
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Where the work lives

Three placements on the stage side, switched from the Work row or with [ and ]. Send one on its own by adding ?work=b to the link.

A: the stage wall — the sixteen continue the backdrop out along the same wall, two rows a side, so the whole west face is one hang. Clears the bar north and the DJ south
B: suspended — sixteen on cable drops, eight a side, flanking the walk to the stage on the same suspension the clothing hangs from. You pass between them and arrive at the four large ones
C: on the architecture — sixteen face-mounted two-high on the tiled columns. Nothing added at all. Note a 24″ print overhangs an 18″ column face by 3″ either side

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.