New Entrance with Brick

A proposal for a new entrance to Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts, London. Eleven years since its transformation into an art college, the form of education continues to evolve and is reflected in how we occupy and regularly challenge the space. As a listed building, dramatic transformation can be economic, sustainable and apposite. Priest and Merrett Houmøller Architects configure, through slide presentation, an inclusive landscape; offering a stage for events, a plinth to exhibit upon and a space to sit. Referencing the distinctive red brick of the former barracks, laid end-up, the space will quietly converse with the geometry, texture and lighting of the Rootstein Hopkins Parade Ground.

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Exhibition overview:
Parallax is an exchange between ASP Katowice in Poland and Chelsea College of Arts, London. Coordinated by Pawel Mendrek and Martin Newth the project has included exhibitions in Katowice and London. Parallax sets out to ask questions about what an art school is and what it might become. Parallax acknowledges that an art school’s function is a test site: one that allows for discourse to be enacted through making work, where ideas and approaches, methods and technologies are shared, challenged and developed.

The first exhibition took place in Poland in June–September 2015. Parallax #1 marked the completion of the Katowice Fine Art Academy’s new building. The work responded directly to the architecture of the purpose-built art school and was installed in the months before the students moved in. Parallax #2 took place in 2016. The art school building at Chelsea, steeped in history and re-imagined over generations of occupants, provided a very different context for Parallax #2. The artworks, made in a range of media including film, photography, text, performance and sculpture responded to what an art school may be: as a place, an idea, a community, a set of histories or as an architectural site.

• https://www.merretthoumoller.com/paralla...
• https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/...
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