Posted Oct 29, 2018, 9:49 PM
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Museum Fine Arts, Houston Completes Phase 2 Of Its $450M Campus Redevelopment Project
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One of the largest contiguous spaces for a public museum's conservation efforts now caps and cantilevers over an existing parking garage at Museum Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH).
Freshly completed, the two-story Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation Center for Conservation has been the second phase of the museum's ongoing campus $450 million redevelopment, which is slated to wrap up in 2020.
A two-story project, the 39,000-square-foot conservation facility was designed by Lake|Flato Architects. The center consolidates the museum's previously dispersed conservation department, established 20 years ago.
In profile, the new center's exterior unfolds in a series of glass-and-steel boxes atop the museum's four-level parking garage. These studio bays along the perimeter (one for each discipline: painting, sculpture, textile and decorative arts) have clerestory windows to catch the indirect, conservation-friendly north light and ceiling heights of up to 22 feet. The building's floor plan also has facilities for conservation functions requiring darkness, such as imaging and x-ray studios. Support spaces occupy the corridor bisecting the light and dark work areas. Mechanical support is located a level below, which freed up ceiling space from duct work and piping.
MFAH's master plan for its 14 acres calls for a more connected, pedestrian-friendly campus that incorporates existing and new buildings, plazas and landscaped public spaces as well as improves the sidewalks, lighting, tunnels and parking.
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