Studio KAP Architects · Arts Architecture · Cheltenham Art Gallery

Competitive Design Submission ·

An open competition for a new extension to Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum incorporating a series of additional exhibition spaces and archives. studioKAP’s proposals bring together three buildings in a ‘warm handshake’ providing clear orientation and circulation routes from one to the other whilst celebrating their unique architectural characteristics. The creation of an architectural promenade in the new extension rising from entrance foyer through public archives and exhibition spaces (MESA) to educational spaces with views to the street (PLATEAU) and finally to new temporary gallery spaces at roof level (CLOUDS). Daylight from above and ahead as well as the contrast between contained rooms and open circulation spaces provides clear orientation between and through these spaces.