所有者德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校
Lead Design FirmOverland Partners Inc.
General ContractorLinbeck Group LLC
土木工程师Garza EMC
Structural EngineerDatum Engineers
MEP工程师阿鲁普德州有限公司
Austin is a permanent piece of the Blanton Museum of Art’s collection and is the only building designed by artist Ellsworth Kelly, who gifted the design concept to the museum in January 2015. It was Kelly’s final project before his death in December 2015.
这座价值1,050万美元，2,715平方英尺的石材建筑最初是在30多年前设计的，受到第二次世界大战后在法国时在法国学习的罗马式和哥特式教堂的启发。
Linbeck Group项目经理Michael Garza说：“困难或具有挑战性的是使艺术家的设计与建筑法规和标准保持一致。”安装的各个方面都必须在施工开始之前由艺术家批准，从而延长了前构建期。
该项目最初被设计为没有电源或HVAC的独立空间，这意味着没有足够的许可来适应此类基础设施。因此，团队转向解决方案，例如“轻筏”，以隐藏管道和扩散器。
加尔萨说：“人们对建筑物的简单性不了解的是，没有什么可以掩饰您的错误。”“我们在任何给定平面的外部石材上都有1⁄16英寸的公差。团队启动的几乎是不切实际的参数。”
One of the most challenging aspects of the project was coordinating internationally supplied materials to the design’s precise specifications. The stone was quarried and cut in Spain, while the art glass was hand blown in Germany and the marble panels quarried in Italy and finished in California.
Each of the 33 individual units for the colored art glass windows required unique installation parameters due to the various window positions in the exterior wall design. A combination of computer design, lasers and full scale plywood templates helped the team achieve a zero-edge effect on each of the glass installations.
“For the appearance of such a simple building, it was very complex [and required] a lot of coordination,” Garza says.
