Gamze Yağmur Günaydın
The double-height void at night: weathered steel masses on the floor, a green and yellow mobile turning high in the space, and a stair hung on wires rising past the upper platforms.
Work

Light design

Equilibriums

Casa degli Artisti, Milan , 2024

01, The place

A house for artists.

The Casa degli Artisti building seen from the street, its tall studio windows and rendered façade in daylight.

Casa degli Artisti, Milan

Via Tommaso da Cazzaniga , Corso Garibaldi 89/A , 20121 Milano

Established in 1909 as a creative hub for artists, Casa degli Artisti has long been part of Milan's artistic life. Located at the heart of the city's cultural production, it continues today as a space supporting contemporary art, creative exchange, and artistic residencies.

02, Two forces

Contrasts in balance.

Serra's massive, static works introduce weight and permanence, while Calder's kinetic sculptures bring lightness, movement, and change. Placed in dialogue, these opposing qualities turn the exhibition into an exploration of balance, where stillness and motion coexist.

Alexander Calder in his studio, adjusting a hanging mobile whose discs cast shadows across the wall, a large black stabile standing beside him.

Alexander Calder

movement · suspension · lightness

The American sculptor best known for his mobiles — kinetic works that move with air or touch. His abstract and playful language brings movement and lightness into the space.

Richard Serra at work in his studio, bent over a large black circular work on the floor, further black works on the wall behind him.

Richard Serra

mass · gravity · weight

The American sculptor known for his large-scale steel works. Their mass and weight shape the way the viewer moves through and experiences the surrounding space.

03, The plan

A new spatial order within the existing structure.

The proposal works within the existing structure, reorganizing the interior through a series of new spatial interventions while preserving the building's original framework.

EQUILIBRIUMS, Floor plan, 1/50

The section

EQUILIBRIUMS, Section A-A, 1/50

The intervention

New elements within the existing structure.

EQUILIBRIUMS, Axonometric view

04, Lighting hierarchy

Lighting across day and night.

Daytime and night-time lighting are mapped separately across the seven program zones, showing how the level and distribution of light changes between the two conditions.

Daytime, Lighting hierarchy

Night-time, Lighting hierarchy

Measured light across the plan, day against night.

Organization of space

  1. 01Foyer
  2. 02Lobby, bookstore
  3. 03Exhibition area
  4. 04Bar
  5. 05Dining area
  6. 06Workshop area
  7. 07Co-working area

Technical Drawings

RCP plan, 3.00 m level

RCP plan, 6.00 m level

05, The spaces

Experiencing balance through space.

The entrance in low light: a figure stepping in through a lit doorway on the left, a man reading at a low cantilevered counter on the right, linear lights hanging in the dark grey room.

Reception, The entrance is kept intentionally subdued, with linear lighting guiding the first view into the exhibition.

A figure crossing a lit catwalk between two planes of suspended rods, red mobile vanes visible in the dark beyond.

Exhibition, A narrow bridge moves through the suspended installation, allowing visitors to experience the work from within.

Weathered steel masses standing in the dark double-height exhibition space, a curtain of suspended rods behind them and a figure on the upper platform.

Exhibition, Weathered steel elements occupy the darker part of the gallery, with focused lighting revealing their scale and texture.

A field of thin rods suspended from the ceiling over a lit platform, figures moving through the dark room beyond.

Bar, Cafe, Suspended rods define the dining area without fully enclosing it, creating separation while keeping the space visually open.

Menu design

The bar menu · balance — contrast

The menu cover: BALANCE set across a split page, a martini with olives in light on the left and one with a lemon twist on black on the right, CONTRAST at the foot.
The menu inside: COCKTAILS, Liquid Tension, four paired drinks listed over glasses casting long shadows.

Designed around balance, contrast and visual tension.

A Calder-style mobile with red, blue and yellow vanes hanging over a long dark table with weathered steel block stools, a figure at its edge.

Workshop, The workshop translates the project’s idea of balance into an active space, bringing making, movement and shared use together around a central table.

A figure seated at the near end of the long reading table, paging through a document under a line of desk lamps, books stacked at hand and bookshelves at the far end between reflective, textured walls.

A restrained setting centred around a shared table, creating a quieter atmosphere away from the main exhibition spaces.

Academic team project, Milan: Gamze Yağmur Günaydın · Emre Bayram

Supervised by Prof. Sergio Boccia

Role: Concept · Technical drawings · 3D modeling · Rendering · Presentation

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