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PROJECT | Tate in Space

Below are the development sketches for the aTate in Space Project.

Azhar acted as a consultant to ETA LAB, and worked with Steve Bedford of Virtual Artworks for the final images, these can be see on Tate in Space Final Images

Architects : ETALAB
Design Consultant : Azhar Architecture
Visualisation : Virtual Artworks
3D interactive model : Terraswarm
Aeronautics Consultant : Dr. Marcanthony Zanchetta
Art Consultant : Christian Scheidemann

Click here to access the Tate In Space website

Sketches and Design Development

The sketches explore the notion of the "Tate in Space" as initially a "Tate Module" as an extension to the ISS The "international Space Station".

The module would be lunched as part of a payload in a space shuttle. This dictates its size approx. (4.5m dia by 9m long cylinder).

The module would engage directly with the ISS and collaborate with scientists of the ISS (an international collaborative), to introduce the "cultural" perspective of the ISS.

The Virtual element of the project would be accessed also through this module, into a series of portals, which access the other Tate galleries.

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Cross Section Study

The ISS rotates around the earth projecting a sinusoidal satellite path.

The spatial language of the development of the Tate, From Tate Britain, and Tate Modern. Also the Guggenheim the New York and Bilbao compared. The Premise is what spatial development will the Tate in Space allow?

COLLABORATION

ECOLOGY

PARALLELS

GRAVITY

The Tate module being carried in a shuttle and launched with reusable rockets.

The module form explored and envisaged within the payload area of the shuttle...with the earth in the background.

The Tate Module, form and configuration studies.

"The "Destiny Module" described and explored. The Stack system described, dimensioned as 1.9m by 1.1m, 11 racks are used for systems, power, cooling, water, air etc. The other 13 stacks are used for laboratories and operational functions.

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The "Centrifugal" Module

The "Russian Research Module"

The "Japanese research Module", with its non pressurised external experiments area with external arm and facilities.

ISS Statistics

470 Ton
1 labs
2 habitation module
etc.

orbit 270-285 miles.

Views of module being launched from shuttle payload, with Earth in background.

Module Airlocks

REAL Portal

VIRTUAL Portal sketches

Portal study, a virtual series of portals to the other Tate galleries

Tate Modern
Tate Britain
Tate North
Tate South
Tate West

and of course
Tate in Space

Virtual Portal interface study,

Functions of the Gallery

COMMISSION
COLLECT
CURATE
COMMUNICATE

PREMISE: The virtual extension of the Tate would be a consideration between the architects, the curators of the virtual exhibition and the ISS. The virtual proposition would be based around speculations with well defined parameters. The Real and Virtual Tate would be accessed through the Air Lock of the Tate module, and hence is an extension of it.....the following studies different formal possibilities of the virtual Tate.

These propositions would be designed in conjunction with the Curator. It is seen as a project which transforms and changes with time, but is done in the spirit of cultural and scientific advancement. The relation (physical and academical) to the ISS is critical, to create a debate about the future of the possibilities of cultural impact in space.