Millan Art Gallery

São Paulo, Brazil

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Millan Art Gallery

São Paulo, Brazil

Firm

Undiú

Type

Cultural › Gallery

STATUS

Built

YEAR

2023

SIZE

1000 sqft - 3000 sqft

The project for Millan art gallery is built in a small site adjacent to an existing building from the same company. The idea was to design an autonomous building, which nevertheless establishes a dialogue with the precedent one. This relationship between them is achieved both through an internal passage and a common esplanade that can be extremely useful for vernissages and outdoor sculptures. The concept for the new building was to create a single space for the client’s demand, which was roughly an exhibition room and a working space for the gallery team. The spatial solution was locating the first on the ground floor, while putting the second above, in a mezzanine which doesn’t touch the side walls. The voids created allow natural light to come in through continuous skylights at the ceiling, besides provoking an interesting variation on the ceiling height at the exhibition room. Constructively, the project’s perimeter and its service core were conceived in masonry and concrete, while the façade, mezzanine and ceiling were designed as light steel structures, mostly pre-assembled in factory. This feature granted more agility and precision during the construction process. To avoid the presence of columns inside the exhibition room, the mezzanine side walls were thought as two longitudinal trusses which cross the space as a kind of bridge. Working as a single whole, the building tries to take the most out of a small site, to integrate different functions and to approximate the gallery team from the exhibition dynamics.

This project was designed in partnership with Clara Werneck.