Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio, USA
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DS+R
Project Leader
Competition
2007
Prior to the competition, the CAM consisted of a collection of historic buildings that were added over the past century only haphazardly organizing themselves around a barren courtyard.
The 300,000-sf museum renovation and extension propose a new exhibition hall/ pavilion comprised of several stacked jumbo galleries which occupies the former void of the courtyard.
The new faceted addition sits, like a gemstone prow of its setting, providing a viewing platform at its summit to take in the magnificent views of the countryside and back to the city. Its faceted geometry is shaped and calibrated to allow daylight to flow down to the entry at the ground floor beneath the belly.
The intervention creates a new visual hierarchy and revised circulation sequence which permits more connections between the existing buildings and therefore greater flexibility for exhibition planning.
The project provides a renewed vehicular parking scheme with green space and proposes a new arrival sequence based on the new hierarchy.
