renzo piano

exhibation space / auditorium classrooms + studios

renzo piano project year 2013 location fort worth, texas

the new structure faces the west facade of kahn’s building and is similar in height, plan and orientation to the existing museum.

the front facade is split into three sections to echo the internal layout. entering the glazed lobby in the central third of the building, which has large gallery spaces either side. the roof extends past the external glass walls, supported by a colonnade of concrete columns.

daylight coming through the gallery ceilings is controlled by layers of stretched fabric, glass and aluminium louvers between the wooden beams. glazed passageways lead from the lobby and south gallery into the second half of the building, buried beneath a grasscovered roof so the extension doesn’t dwarf kahn’s building and to insulate the spaces. floor plan

elevation

sections

teaching + research facilities/ sports + arts

grafton architects project year under construction location london,uk www.graftonarchitects.ie/

renderings show the 10-storey building, which includes two basement levels and a split-level roof terrace, slotted into the place of an existing red brick structure.

these show the building faced in pale stone with a series of planted terraces. inside, a dramatically curving staircase connects teaching spaces set around an atrium with a branching structure of columns and beams. floor plans

section

social club / resturant / cafe gallery / gym / gathering point

grafton architects project year 2002 location dublin,ireland www.graftonarchitects.ie/

the building consists of two layers that combine to form a spatial tartan grid.

the two-storey ‘ground layer’ is stratified in the east-west direction, establishing layers of privacy. the ‘sky layer’ of roof lights works in the opposite, north-south direction, visually and volumetrically stitching the spaces together. this tension – between the stratifying layer and the stitching layer – resulted in a surprising degree of spatial complexity.

terracotta roof tiles, granite plinths, mica speckled render and red brick form the material palette of adjacent buildings. The low rendered plinth of this new insert into the campus fabric forms a solid, robust base for the lighter and more fragile terracotta wall tiles above. structure plan

construction diagrams

window study