密尔沃基美术馆结构分析.pdf

Case Study: Milwaukee Art Museum ARCH 631: Structural Systems Prof. Anne Nichols Aaron M. Vorwerk Contents The Milwaukee Art Museum The Architect The Quadracci Pavilion Design Concept Building Layout Structural Features Summary The Milwaukee Art Museum • Began with Layton Art Gallery (1888) and Milwaukee Art Institute (1918) • Joined to form Milwaukee Art Center in 1957 and moved into new Eero Saarinen-designed building on Milwaukee waterfront The Milwaukee Art Museum • Museum collection continued to expand throughout the 1980s and ’90s • Attendance increased dramatically, approaching 200,000 annual visitors • Both factors prompted consideration of an expansion • Looking for a strong architectural statement, museum officials turned to architect and engineer Santiago Calatrava in 1994 • Calatrava’s design was unveiled in March 1996, receiving an enthusiastic response from the community • The Quadracci Pavilion was completed in October 2001, becoming the first building constructed by Calatrava in the United States The Milwaukee Art Museum The Architect • Santiago Calatrava was born in Valencia, Spain in 1951 • He earned a degree in architecture from Escuela Tecnica Superior de Arquitectura in Valencia • He then pursued studies in the field of civil engineering, completing a Ph.D. from the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland in 1979 The Architect • Calatrava began entering design competitions to gain recognition • His first winning design was the Stadelhofen Railway Station (Zurich, 1983) • As he gained commissions, he opened a second office (Paris) in 1989, and then a third (Valencia) in 1991 • The Milwaukee Art Museum expansion became his first major project built in the United States in 2001 • Calatrava e