Week 2 - London Detail and Material
- bettinaevincenti
- Apr 4, 2022
- 2 min read
Updated: May 25, 2022
Detail 1
The Garden Museum explores and celebrates British gardens and gardening through its collection, temporary exhibitions, events and garden.
The history behind the Garden Museum dates from the medieval era to the present day. It was founded by Rosemary and John Nicholson in 1977 in order to rescue the abandoned church of St Mary’s at Lambeth, which was due for demolition. The church is the burial place of John Tradescant (c1570 – 1638), the first great gardener and plant-hunter in British history.
Looking at this panelling you can slowly see the detail of how its connected to the wall.
The timber can be a variety of woods; teak, oak or pine.
In between the panelling its quite dark almost as if the plaster wall has been painted black.
Connecting the timber panels to the plaster are hidden lost head nails or screws creating a more seamless finish.
The image below shows how one achieves a shadow gap with a false ceiling. Bolts are used to mount the aluminium, extrusion to the wall. Then a gypboard ceiling is slot in and are again used to attach it to the extrusion. After painters putty is used to make it look seamless.
Detail 2
The V&A is the world’s leading museum of art and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.3 million objects that span over 5,000 years of human creativity. The Museum holds many of the UK's national collections and houses some of the greatest resources for the study of architecture, furniture, fashion, textiles, photography, sculpture, painting, jewellery, glass, ceramics, book arts, Asian art and design, theatre and performance.
A barrel vault is the simplest form of a vault created from a single continuous archway. These beautiful curved ceilings are comprised of 3 basic measurements: Length, Width, and Rise.
Length: The distance from one end of the barrel vault to the other end.
Width: The span of the barrel vault
Rise: The drop of the arch as measured from the apex of the arch to the lowest point it encounters.
The atrium in the centre of the vaulted ceiling is held up with a structural barrel vault frame.
There are many details that can be taken but one that stands out to me is the rafter detail which I imagine is held together with a screw joining two brackets together holding the glass/perspex.
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