Group Work

In this task, we had to visit some local buildings that area associate with art movement and we had to observe and research about the elements of product and spatial design in public spaces and even private area.   

For Our assignment Lara Abdalla, Alessandro De Martino, Lucianne Calleja and I chose Art Nouveau. We choose this movement because Malta has a great element of Art Nouveau in our buildings.

The first thing that we did was finding some information on the internet about Art Nouveau. We already had some basic knowledge that Ms. Abela presented to us in her lesson.  Then we started searching for buildings that we have in Malta that is related to Art Nouveau.

The first place that it took us was Rose Villa that it is in Attard Street Sant Anton.  This house was what we were looking for. This was an abounded building but now it's restored to an old people's home. Obviously, it isn’t exactly how it was, like the colors but they still kept the style. Although it shows gothic revival too, because of the arch windows.  We went inside too, but it was totally different from outside.

The second place that we visit was Balluta buildings at St Julian. This even had many elements of Art Nouveau especially the gate that leads to a restaurant. It had natural forms. 

The next building was in tower road, Sliema. This was restored too. And now it’s a branch of Lombard bank. As Art Nouveau elements this building had the windows and the entrance of the door.

Next place was in Sliema Sir Adrian Dingli Street. This was full of Art nouveau style buildings such as the balconies, Windows, and doors. Then there was a hostel that with the owner’s permission we went in and we notice that the stairs had an art Nouveau style because of their structure and curves forms. In this street, we saw some typography that is in Art Nouveau style.

The last place that we went was Casa Rocca Piccola. The Dining room was the only room that was in Art Nouveau style. This had many products that related to Art Nouveau like cutlery, the three Windows that enters lights , glass and much more.

For products, we went to a jewellery shop.  This shop continues of antique and modern jewellery which helped us the different aspects of art nouveau on jewellery.

According to fashion, we saw some designs that Charles and Ron had on their website. We found some clothes designs that were related to Art Nouveau.  But to confirm this we called the designers.

After this we made more research on the history of building, history of the material used and on the characteristic of Art Nouveau to add them in our presentation.

As a team we really enjoyed working together, all of us gave their best for this presentation and by the help of my class mate they helped me understand more the style of Art Nouveau because of their different opinion and knowledge.