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Margot Samel Gallery
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Client: Margot Samel Gallery
Year: 2021
Typology: Cultural
Building Type: Art Gallery
Project Size: 936 SF
Project Cost: $150K
Location: Tribeca, New York, NY
Located on Church Street in the Tribeca East Historic District, Margot Samel Gallery occupies a site with a rich history reaching back to the 19th century. The renovation required stripping back the existing interior facade to its original state and removing the exterior security gates, which revealed a large arched window providing an updated storefront to the gallery space.
The project’s driving design concept focuses on creating a clear distinction between the existing conditions of the original space and the new improvements to support the gallery. This is achieved by engaging a continuous datum below the line of the existing crown molding whereby everything below the datum is considered “gallery” and everything above the datum is maintained as an “existing” condition. This continuous datum has a practical function given the difficulty of terminating the gallery walls against the shifting walls and ceilings natural to the original space.
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