the museum through a grove of trees and landscaped forecourt, which provides a place of contemplation, decompression, and transition from the museum’s surrounding urban context. Through the trees, the structure of the building is visible, consisting of cast-in-place architectural concrete walls with a variety of surface relief and texture. The facade features thin, vertical lines of concrete that project from the building’s surface in a fractured, organic, and random pattern, creating a rich surface that changes in the intense Denver sunlight and forms varied shadows across the building.
Extracted from the e-mail interview of the architecture office.
Reception lobby and main stair leading to the main galleries.
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Rethinking the most widely used manmade material, the museum uses a custom blended concrete sourced from Texas and Wyoming mixed with both fine and coarse aggregate. Made with exterior and interior walls ranging from one to two feet thick, the walls double as structural elements. Poured 43ft high with no horizontal construction joints, the walls were made with a stainless-steel vertical crack-control system behind the face of the concrete. The building models incorporated each tie-hole and wood pattern, as well as the form savers and rebar.
While steel panel forms were built, a wood-batten pattern was used to create the building faรงade. The concrete was poured over multiple months in varied weather conditions. Over 4,600 cubic yards of concrete was used in the foundation, walls and decks. As such, a range of admixtures were included in the concrete to maintain consistency. The milled-wood form liners were detailed and placed as individual vertical strips throughout the design.
■ https://alliedworks.com/projects/clyfford-still-museum ■ https://architizer.com/blog/practice/details/clyfford-still/ ■ https://www.designboom.com/architecture/allied-works-architecture-clyfford-stillmuseum/
■ https://www.archdaily.com/203388/clyfford-still-museum-allied-worksarchitecture-2