Briaanna

Spatial Design

Surrealism Club

In Side Out

The theme for the down stairs section of the club is the enchanted forest. Creating outside indoors.

The entry would be a rabbit warren starting small and widening as you go through into the club.

Having grass floor and trees with faces that talk.

The bar made out of logs with little creatures appearing out of it and also all around the forest area. The seating and tables would be made of logs to that are carved with animal heads and tails. Animals such as reptiles (crocodiles, snakes, turtles) but the parts all mixed up. As you walk through you would come to the dance floor that would be within a glass section all the walls and ceiling are made of glass allowing you to look up and see the sky. OPPTIONAL- a waterfall in to a pond with birds in it swimming like fish and then fish flying through the air.

From there would be the stairs leading to the upper level. Once upstairs you arrive at the balcony that is in the glass area looking over the dance floor.

Upstairs would be outside but made to feel like a indoor room with lounges, daybeds and coffee tables.

The lounges and tables would have weird feet and or prints on the upholstery (not sure exactly what yet if you have any suggestions please let me know.)
Using screens and dividers to create walls and feel like a room and shade sails for the illusion of a ceiling. On the Screens or dividers would be some artwork of windows and out looks into surreal landscapes.

sharnee

My night club is based on side show ally and carnival theme.
The service desk will be a ticket stand out the front of the club with lights around it. When u enter the club u are confronted by huge curved mirrors that reflect warped images of yourself. In the corner as you walk in there’s the cloak room which is 3 over size clowns with there mouths open, u place your money in there mouth and receive a ticket, you then pass you coat to a very tall man standing there. The bar will be a carousel in the corner at the back of the main room. The dance floor will be in the centre of the room and will look like its made of soft cushions {with glass over the top} on the right hand wall there will be a huge projector screen with hands coming out of the wall to hold up the screen. On other walls of the club will be mounted heads of strange looking people and animals. A feature underneath the stairs that lead to the second floor will be 3 carousel horses that rise up and down. Up stairs There will be a second bar and seating which will be over size bumper cars with huge scary heads on the back of them. Oversize clowns will also be made into seating. There is also an out door veranda on the second floor which will have more seating and some strange plants. The roof will be like a circus tent, and there will be flags that hang over the entrance. Colour is a huge part of this club, everything will be colour full and strips.

Phoebe Surrealist Club

I am getting my inspiration from the works of Mark Ryden, who paints cute cartoon style images with creepy undertones, eg a doe eyed girl weeping blood, etc. Other surrealist artists i have gained inspiration from are Camille Rose Garcia, who paints child like animals and people with black dribbling down the walls, also the Clayton Brothers who also paint innocent paintings of animals and characters with the animals eating eachother, etc. I have also been influenced by Jan Svankmajers 'Alice in Wonderland' movie, in particular the rabbit character who is made from a stuffed rabbit, who as the movie progresses keeps eating the stuffing that is falling out of his body. 

I am proposing to create the nightclub with a mezzanine level which would be a semi curcle curved around the length of the room. The upper level will be for sitting, drinking and dining. There would be about a half meter drop to the lower level which would be a dance floor in front of a slightly raised stage area. 

The theme of the club will be like in a childs play room but with bizarre and sinister undercurrents, or things not what they seem. There will be oversized stuffed animals throughout the club with bleeding eyes or dismembered limbs... perhaps swap some of their heads.. these could make up the tables and chairs??

The stage area will be made to look like a giant television set, with a curtain which when drawn will have projected images on it of children sitting staring at a television (to make the impression the club is within the tv)

Was thinking of maybe making the entire room seem like you are really small?? 

 

Revolution By Night

After researching the surrealist movement I was intrigued and drawn to the works of Hans Bellmer. Hans Bellmer was an artist best known for the life-sized pubescent female dolls he produced in the mid-1930s. Historians of art and photography also consider him a Surrealist photographer. .Since 1926 he had been working as a draftsman for his own advertising company. He initiated his doll project to oppose the fascism of the Nazi Party by declaring that he would make no work that would support the new German state. Represented by mutated forms and unconventional poses, his dolls were directed specifically at the cult of the perfect body then prominent in Germany. Bellmer's doll project is also said to have been catalysed by a series of events in his personal life, including meeting a beautiful teenage cousin in 1932 - and perhaps other unattainable beauties.

Bellmer has suggested that this figure, standing in an open space with its blue background, recalls his memories of an enchanted garden which he visited when a child. By placing his creations in an ideal childhood, he recalls a period from his personal history in which he had no sexual anxieties. If the garden was an encompassing, supportive place, it is disrupted by the classic Freudian trauma: the discovery, by a male child, of a woman’s ‘lack’ of penis.

There was, in the surrealist movement, a tendency to evoke the uncanny from ordinary everyday objects. This could be striking, shocking and even traumatic. If the end vision is experienced as traumatic by some, this usually arises when the human body is made uncanny.

In the case of Bellmer’s photographs and sculptures of dolls, the body is dismembered into strange and wonderful collection of orifices, most of them sexual. Perhaps the term ‘convulsive beauty’ best describes these works of art.

REVOLUTION BY NIGHT

The design,concept and inspiration for my surrealist café/day club comes from a dream like perception of being in a garden that’s somehow not quite right. There will be vertical gardens dedicated to the expression of imagination free of the conscious control of reason and free of convention. The club will consist of two levels with an ambience of ‘pleasure and pain’. The first level will be for day time dining in an atmosphere where there are walls covered with moss, dandelions on the ceiling, tables and chairs made from vines and birds on the floor. A garden of Eden with a twist. The second level will be for listening to music on the roof top garden. Everything that we imagine in a backyard garden will be there but with a twist. Two headed dogs, clothes (fish) on the hills hoist that is actually a water feature, palm trees made from swords, mushroom umbrellas to sit under and listen to some cool tunes.

surreal furniture

dali rooms

'I try to create fantastic things, magical things, things like in a dream', wrote Salvador Dali in 1940. 'We can make the fantastic real, and then it is more real than that which actually exists.' Although architectural ideas and fantasies can have an existence on paper, it is both the glory and the drawback of architecture that it has to be real, to exist in three dimensions as a masonry construction that actually stands up. Yet although it might therefore seem a contradiction in terms, there certainly was a Surrealist architecture and, even more important, a Surrealist interior. There was, for instance, the Parisian apartment designed by Le Corbusier for Carlos de Beistegui, where the roof garden had a rococo chimneypiece set into the parapet wall above which was a mirror open to the sky.

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Marnie - revised club layout

Now having thought about the club more I would like to have a few different rooms, this way I can include all the themes and artists that I want to. Maybe four rooms in total? Maybe have one of the entrances as a big pair or sparkly lips and have that room as though your inside a mouth. The tables and chairs are teeth and tounges. Inside another room could be like you were in the sky with clouds on the floor walls and ceiling. Inside another of the rooms would be like you were in a desert, with extreme heat and everything would appear to be melting - Salvador Dali style. Inside the last room would maybe be a circus theme with parachute from the roof and lots of colour and surprise..

Revolution By Night

I propose to design and make a nightclub, suitable as a day club that is influenced by surrealist art.

The club will have two stories, with two staircases running up the sides of the club. There should be a bar and a DJ both upstairs and downstairs.

The upstairs area shall have a stronger focus on dancing with a large open space for movement. The walls should be projected with images similar to the inside of a kaleidoscope, with a mirrored roof to reflect the pattern. A mirrored floor with a slight texture may work well also to reflect pattern colours, without being inappropriate to the user. Upstairs there should be space allocated (towards the front of the club) for decking, so that people can get fresh air if they like. The deck should overlook the street and people below.

The upstairs area should provide access to the toilets with a mirrored maze hallway to the entry. It should have many small laser lights to creating an interesting light effect, as similar to the mirror maze at Infinity on the Gold Coast (http://www.infinitygc.com.au/about-infinity.html).

There could potentially be large severed arms as chairs, so that people can sit around the dance floor and watch.

Fractured wall patterns, walls with boils or walls with groping hands could work on or around the bar. If possible it may be interesting to include an area similar to an Andy Warhol installation with large, silver helium sacks floating around. However, these could probably be damaged easily.

The downstairs area should have a stronger focus on relaxing and hanging out with friends and new people. There should be a large amount of space for cushions (as seats) that are oversized, round eyeballs.

The entry should be downstairs, with an interesting theme to get people’s attention. I wouldn’t mind having something similar to a persons insides, such as a rib cage or intestines to make up the service desk. 

Phoebe Surrealist Club

Artist

Marnie - Revolution by night

I have a few ideas on how I want my club to look.
I was thinking about having either half/half, all on one level or just one huge room. I like the idea of setting the club as a roof top terrace..
Ideas: day/night - under the sea (fish tanks) - in the sky with clouds - clowns (circus theme: cabaret voltaire I would call it instead if we are allowed to change the name). Depending on which theme I choose depends on the characters and layout. I like the idea of having glass panels instead of walls. I would also like to make the club totally out of found objects. Things that I have found outside or old bits and pieces. Bring them all together and make something new again.
I like interactive things within the club.
I think a good club has a balance of a good dance floor with ample amount of space, comfortable lounges, mood lighting, outside areas (fairylights and also more seating), good music and easy to get at bar with enough staff so you dont have to wait for ages. There wouldn't be just a main focus on one part in my revolution by night.