Art Gallery of Grande Prairie

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art gallery of grande prairie

grande prairie, alberta

Client:

City of Grande Prairie

Size:

15,000 sq.ft.

Status:

Completed 2012

LEED速: Silver

The Art Gallery of Grande Prairie is a new three-storey gallery fit within the two-storey masonry shell of the former Grande Prairie High School – a building within a building.

The project expands the existing art gallery built within the Prairie Design Award-winning Montrose Cultural Centre, designed and completed by Teeple Architects in 2009.

With the new expansion, the Art Gallery of Grande Prairie becomes the second largest art gallery in the province and is the key cultural focal point within the city’s growing civic precinct.

The new three-storey structure is held twelve feet back from the existing masonry walls, creating a tall, naturally lit gallery in the interstitial space between the new and existing structures.

Seven galleries in succession, varying from small and intimate to large and expansive, choreograph a sequence through which visitors are naturally drawn.

Visual interconnectivity between spaces creates a richness of experience, allowing glimpses of future moments in the sequence and allowing objects in the collection to be perceived from multiple points of view.

The gallery achieves a new level of openness by bringing the traditional back-ofhouse functions of education, research, archival storage and even the workshop into the visitor experience to maximize educational opportunities.

Flexibility and functionality are top priorities of the design. The role of the architecture is to enhance the experience of the art and to create opportunities for the artists and curators.

Diffuse natural light is brought into the galleries through angled light monitors that reflect clerestory light into the galleries while concealing the source of the light.

The new gallery connects to the existing building with a glass bridge suspended within a double height gallery, spanning what was previously the gap between the old school building and the Montrose Cultural Centre.

Around the corner, the Montrose Cultural Centre’s reflective, shifting roofscape captures the unique qualities of light found in the Northern Prairie, drawing daylight deep into its colourful interior

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Status:

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