The Girls Club

The Girls Club is a private foundation and alternative art space that educates the public on the contributions of women to the field of contemporary art. Located in downtown Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Converting an existing warehouse through the layering of materials, light and movement, the architect created all art oriented environment for the Bishop Good and Horvitz collection. The interior provides multiple zones with a central pivoting wall and raised mezzanine for interior projection. Color is used selectively to orchestrate patrons visually through different zones. The façade is reconfigured to change the paradigm and question the relationship of the space to the city, to the street and the role of art in the community This project explores the relationship between the permanent and temporary nature of other material. The south façade is clad in new fiber glass panels, layered on top of steel frame, directly over the existing windows and wall. Creating an illusion of an organic structure, a pattern that somehow emerges as a landscape in the city and casts a shadow within itself. The interior layers are cladding of drywall layers over the existing windows behind the exterior fiberglass and steel frame creating a light box for the sunlight to filter through. Layer of material and light are explored on the inside with structural plastic and led lights embedded into walls providing a nodal point for the support area of the gallery and a pivot wall for hanging art adjust the space to create space options within the overall studio. Lightness and transparency are sought. Resins, plastics, polymers and colors are layered to define private and public spaces. A mezzanine is added and accessed by an intensive orange zone, denoting a different use.

The Girls Club by Glavovic Studio, Inc. in United States won the WA Award Cycle 10. Please find below the WA Award poster for this project.