01. Art City

Spring 2022

Faculty: Annette Lecuyer, Gregory Serweta

Studio Partner: Victoria Gutierrez

Location: 273 Main St. Buffalo, NY

Art City is a contemporary arts museum in downtown Buffalo. Downtown Buffalo is an ideal location for a contemporary gallery due to the resurgance in the area.

The museum is split on the north and south side, with walkways connecting them above ground level, so that there’s a public pathway and a plaza on the ground floor. The north side of the museum has elements of iconography with a series of gallery spaces in a tower which also has views of the surrounding area, while the south side of the museum is meant for larger gallery spaces. The museum program also accounts for public gatherings and education.

Three proposed terracotta cladding options include:

- horizontal baguettes which are displaced in each row to disassociate from standard order

- the same idea but in a vertical concept

- linear rows with cladding randomly extruded per panel with same colors per row

Site cast concrete foundation / retaining walls

Site cast concrete vertical cores / lateral restraint

Steel frame + corrugated steel decks with site cast concrete slabs