Studio VAARO

Following Viewing Rooms’ sculpture gallery, a second threshold (containing a washroom and kitchenette) guides movement into the photography gallery.

This final room, a perfect square, was designed to display photographs in an intimate setting. Rounded corners soften the room’s geometry, while a tall lightwell set flush with the far wall casts diffuse illumination that further dissolves the wall’s edges.

In Collaboration with our dear friend and fine art photographer

Visualization:

Viewing Rooms, Studio VAARO’s design for a small art gallery in rural Ontario, sits in a forest clearing.

Its dark, monolithic pigmented-concrete façade echoes the surrounding earth and bark tones. Three chimney-like lightwells rise among the trees, drawing diffuse daylight deep into the galleries. Below, five concave bands are carved into the base, recalling stone shaped by wind and water, or the imprint of fingers pressed into clay.

In Collaboration with our dear friend and fine art photographer

Visualization: