A Factor Of Time

In a location as historic as the Georgia State Railroad Museum, an important idea of design to consider is the dimension of time. The artists’ apartment, studio workshop, and gallery building called Factor Of Time, embeds the intimate relationship of space and time together to make an ageless idea of an age full design. Because of the large viewsheds of the interior space being of the front trellis park and the back courtyard, these botanically involves areas work as a space that is witnessed by the users as a changing space. As time passes, the vines on the trellis and the tree in the courtyard grow longer and thicker to work with, but not yell out, the essence of aging. In addition to working as a thematic element, these botanical presences work as sun shading for the South and West facing walls in the front, and all of the walls of the courtyard. Because the excessive heating and lighting in these areas are blocked by the vegetation, the use of large windows works as a large viewshed without being a greenhouse. The saw-tooth roof also works with bringing in less-harsh and less-heated natural light into the second floor apartments and the, back of the first floor, gallery space. In addition to working with the time aspect of the location’s buildings, Factor Of Time also uses the design ideas of brick and metal along with its saw-tooth roof to illustrate the factory style of the location’s buildings.