Businesses By Industry Near Me Directory.Interior work includes a revamp of exhibition spaces as well as a new entrance.ĭenver Art Museum Deputy Director Andrea Kalivas Fulton, Machado Silvetti Principal Stephanie Randazzo Dwyer, and Fentress Architects Technical Design Director Ned Kirschbaum, will be joining the panel “Facade Strategies for Curatorial Institutions” at The Architect’s Newspaper’s upcoming Facades+ Denver conference on September 12. Additionally, the design team will complete a roof terrace originally planed by Ponti but left incomplete due to budgetary constraints. A significant component of the museum’s overhaul is the repair of the building’s facade, which is comprised of approximately one million glass tiles placed atop a concrete structure. The $150-million project includes a significant overhaul of Gio Ponti’s castellated North Building, also led by Fentress Architects and Machado Silvetti. “The glass fins are in turn point‑supported top and bottom with stainless steel bolts through drilled holes in the glass fins and connected back to the building’s primary steel structure through custom stainless-steel fittings.” These angles are supported by custom stainless-steel fittings that attach to triple-laminated, low-iron glass fins using stainless-steel bolts through holes drilled in the glass fins,” said Fentress Architects Principal and Director of Technical Design Ned Kirschbaum.
“Each curved glass unit is supported at the top and bottom by a curved stainless-steel angle. (Courtesy Machado Silvetti and Fentress Architects) The individual glass panels are held in place by a system of top and bottom rails and framed by glass fins within the interior. The panels were hoisted by a team of eight and mounted onto the custom-fabricated facade system.
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To install the panels-the majority of which weigh 3,200 pounds-the installation team relied on a suction cup lifter with articulated mounts that conformed to the curved surfaces of the panels. Panel heights differ according to location approximately two-thirds of the panels are 25-feet tall while those located along the clerestory are 5-feet tall. The panels have a universal width of 8 feet and a curve radius of 10 feet. In total, 52 glass panels enclose the welcome center.
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Saunders Construction (General Contractor)Īccording to Andrea Kalivas Fulton, Deputy Director of the Denver Art Museum, “the primary objectives of the Denver Art Museum welcome center included creating a structure and spaces that would bring two very distinct, but disparate, buildings together to function as a true campus to act as a counterbalance to the opaque, dense buildings we had built to house the artwork and to serve as a beacon within the city that felt inviting and welcoming to all.”Ī challenge for the design team was translating the civic ambitions of the client, and the cultural role of the museum within the region, into a facade strategy with a distinct identity that highlighted its surroundings without the visual hinderance of exposed fasteners and vertical mullions.įor Machado Silvetti Principal Jeffry Burchard, “once this design concept was in place, the design team then went through many rounds of conversations with fabricators and installers in the process of realizing that full height curved IGUs, supported off of triple laminated glass fins connected to the second-floor cantilever was not only possible but the best and most efficient way to implement the concept.” Fentress Architects (Architect-of-Record)
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