Clyfford Still Museum

Scope

Programming, Site Design, Complete Architectural Services, Exhibition Design, 
Furniture Design

Special Features

Painting exhibition galleries, education facilities, library and archives, 
viewable collection storage, conservation laboratory

Material Systems

Site-cast architectural concrete walls, concrete structural ceiling slabs, 
daylighting system

In 2007, Allied Works was selected to design the
 Clyfford Still Museum, a single-artist institution devoted 
to the life and work of one of the 20th century’s most 
influential and enigmatic painters. The site for the museum 
resides in the Civic Center of Denver, Colorado, a district 
inhabited by buildings of grand collective and cultural narrative.

The 28,000sf museum mediates this setting with two distinct acts of architecture. The first prepares the site by creating a dense grove of deciduous trees - a place of refuge from the intense light of central Colorado. The second act of architecture looks to the earth. 

The Museum is conceived as a solid, a continuous form that is opened up by natural light. Walls of textured concrete form the primary building envelope, interior walls and structural system. The entrance, deeply recessed beneath the cantilevered walls, holds the visitor to the earth. The lower level houses the education, archive and storage spaces. In the upper level galleries, the visitor moves through a series of nine distinct volumes where they encounter the work of Clyfford Still. Overhead, an open lattice of concrete unites the body of the building and offers illumination and connection to the atmosphere of the city. The galleries respond to the evolving character of Still’s art, changing scale and proportion, while varying the intensity of light.

For more information please see link below:

http://www.alliedworks.com/projects/clyfford-still-museum/