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visual art in its outdoor spaces. The artworks so installed were<br />
part of the gallery’s collections, and became an integral sign<br />
of the gallery site’s architecture/urbanism. The bridging itself<br />
is sometimes seen as a sculptural form, though the form came<br />
about through the aforementioned architectural processes and<br />
not as a sculpture. This kind of architecture reference to other<br />
artworks, and vice-versa, can also be explained as a specific<br />
form of extra- architectural representation.<br />
As a counterbalance to this type of representation, a tendency<br />
to abstraction was employed. The whole site’s architectural<br />
forms fashion, through geometric surfaces and volumes,<br />
abstract rasters, which in turn become frames for the<br />
outdoor galleries and exhibits. The grids become facades in<br />
places; in some these are large coloured surfaces that together<br />
with the stone foundation call to mind historical architecture<br />
(like the Water Barracks rear facade); elsewhere the proliferation<br />
of them – as on the administrative building’s east facade –<br />
recedes to an ambivalent play of blind red and white windows,<br />
brise-soleil and glassless attic windows, as on the administrative<br />
building’s west facade. Added to this dichotomy between<br />
extra-architectural representation and abstraction, there is striking<br />
representation within architecture dominating the site, systematizing<br />
basic meanings in architecture: it is indeed possible<br />
to grasp the entire site as a cluster of ancient Greek agora<br />
analogies. Some of these are surrounded by vaulted arcade of<br />
the Water Barracks corridors, or the pillared arcade that opens<br />
from the hollow concrete blocks wall and mass of the library<br />
pavilion, alluding to ancient Greek stoas. The latter are further<br />
evoked in the heights of the continuous library balconies or administration<br />
building walkways. The agoras are partly filled by<br />
platforms or terraced amphitheatres, and artworks. The amphitheatre<br />
is a dominating figure, bringing together the whole area<br />
in dynamic balance. It fulfills two related functions: presentation<br />
and education/communication. It can be either an interior cinema<br />
or an exterior lecture room/odeum. The cascaded exhibition<br />
space’s bridging levels are themselves an amphitheatre.<br />
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