Chazen Museum of Art
Image courtesy Machado and Silvetti Associates
Image courtesy Machado and Silvetti Associates
Image courtesy Machado and Silvetti Associates
Image courtesy Machado and Silvetti Associates
Image courtesy Machado and Silvetti Associates
Architects & Firms
Madison, Wisconsin
Program: A three-story, 81,000-square-foot addition to the Chazen Museum of Art at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. The addition doubles the museum's gallery space, allowing much of the collection that had been in storage to go on display. The new wing includes a 5,000-square-foot gallery for temporary exhibitions, a secure loading and receiving area, an auditorium, a works-on-paper gallery, a docent room, a conference room, and a museum store.
Design concept and solution: In expanding the existing museum, built in 1970, the architects wanted the addition to read as a seamless extension of the original, as if the two had always been a single unit. The new poured-in-place concrete structure mimics the slablike massing of the 1970 building and replicates its third-floor gallery plan. On that floor, a bridge gallery connects the two wings, and a band of limestone wraps around the exteriors of both. While the existing building is focused inward, around an interior court, the addition opens itself to the public with a double-height, glazed lobby. The lobby faces a stone-paved courtyard that passes between the two buildings. Emphasizing the new wing's openness, the courtyard's stone paving extends through the lobby and up the main staircase to the third-floor galleries. Rows of copper-clad monitors on the roof modulate daylight and bring it down into the galleries.
Completion Date: August 2011
Total construction cost: $43 million
Owner:
University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents
Architect:
Machado and Silvetti Associates
560 Harrison
Boston, MA 02118
T: 617.426.7070
F: 617.426.3604
PeopleOwner: Client: Architect: Personnel in architect's firm who should receive special credit: Continuum Architects + Planners SC, Managing Architects Architect of record: Continuum Architects + Planners SC Interior designer: Engineer(s): Mechanical/Electrical: Ring & Duchateau Inc. Plumbing and Fire Protection: PSJ Engineering Civil: Bloom Companies, LLC Consultant(s) Lighting: LAM Partners Audio Visual: Professional Audio Designs, Inc Security Design:Architect’s Security Group, Inc (Formerly Steve Keller and Associates) Curtain Designer: Inside/ Outside General contractor: J.H. Findorff & Son Inc. Photographer(s): Anton Grassl Renderer(s): Machado and Silvetti Associates CAD system, project management, or other software used: |
ProductsExterior claddingMasonry: Stone: Shoshone Limestone; dist. By Quarra Stone Company, Madison, WI, 53714 Aluminum: Series 5600, curtain-wall system, Efco Corp. GlazingGlass Curtainwall: StructuralGlass Curtain Wall System, Novum Structures LLC, Menomonie Falls, WI DoorsEntrances: Stainless Steel Balanced Doors, Ellison Bronze Interior finishes Floor and wall tile (cite where used): Dolomitic Limestone at Lobby and stair, Quarra Stone Company, Madison, WI 53714 Ceilings: Solid Cheery wood Slat Ceiling, Open Linear Slat Ceiling Architectural Components Group, Inc Marshfield, MO Furnishings Gallery track lighting: Lighting Services Inc. (LSI), NY |
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