Mangere Arts Centre
Commercial Exterior Category Finalist
Commercial Interior Category Finalist
Commerical Exterior Project Description:
As a meeting, exhibition and performance space for the local
community, Mangere Arts Centre provides a variety of areas for
people to meet, learn, share, display and perform in.
When it came selecting the colour scheme for the exterior of the
Arts Centre, Creative Spaces looked to local Maori and Pacific
Island mythology, legends and beliefs to inform their colour
choices. Uenuku is known to the local Maori as the God of
creativity, and his physical manifestation is the Rainbow. From
this stemmed the colour palette for the exterior of the Arts
Centre, which is expressed in the batons on the exterior entry
façade. Te Puna is a traditional Maori and Pacific term that
applies to a puna wai or a spring of naturally flowing water from
the depths of papatuanuku - mother earth. Te Puna can also be
applied to a source from which artistic skills and all things
scholarly flow. This was expressed in a series of precast concrete
panels with bubbles, which represents the water rising from the
spring, and accented in two subtle shades of blue, which provide
depth.
Colours Used:
Dulux Red Terra
Dulux Play School
Dulux Limone
Dulux O'Grady Green
Dulux Brig
Dulux Dismbark
Dulux Pink Jazz
Dulux Product:
Dulux Aquanamel Semi Gloss
Commercial Interior Project Description:
The interior spaces of Mangere Arts Centre are formed together
with the architecture of the exterior. The steel structure, honed
concrete, ply walls, soffits and plasterboard were best expressed
in a fresh white, with warm neutral tones used for service areas; a
deep moody grey used for areas within the performance space and
accents of colour used for way finding. It was vital that large
areas of wall were available as blank canvases for future artworks
created for or at the centre, with the neutral scheme allowing for
this.
Colours Used:
Dulux Mt Aspiring Half
Dulux Dawson Falls Quarter
Dulux Mt Eden
Dulux Red Terra
Dulux Product:
Dulux Wash & Wear 101 Advanced
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