ADDITION TO CRANBROOK ACADEMY OF ART AND ART MUSEUM.
IN COLLABORATION WITH MONEO-BROCK STUDIO

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ADDITION TO CRANBROOK ACADEMY OF ART AND ART MUSEUM.
IN COLLABORATION WITH MONEO-BROCK STUDIO

Michigan, USA

The sequence of concatenated buildings around Carl Milles’s fountain/square that Eliel Saarinen built in the course of his long life, but which was interrupted by the museum, was completed with this intervention, which decisively rejected the symmetry suggested by the fountain. Instead Moneo proposed a building with two accesses: one from the fountain/square, and the other from the courtyard freely formed behind the building. Nevertheless, the continuity of interior spaces eases passage from the museum to the new workshops.
LOCATION:

Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. USA
CLIENT:

Cranbrook Educational Community
PROGRAM:

Arts Academy
ARCHITECT:

Rafael Moeno y Moneo Brock Studio, Belén Moneo Jeff Brock (Arquitectos Asociados/Associate Architect)
PROJECT TEAM:

María Ibañez (Architect)
Alicia Velazquez (Architect)
David Griffin (Architect)
Beth Weinstein (Architect)
Christian Whitman (Architect)
Ismael Juan (Architect)
Marcos Velasco (Architect)
COLLABORATORS:

Executive Architect: David W. Osler and Associates, Ann Arbor. David Osler, Tom Wright, Scott Van Sweringen
Structural Engineer: Structural Design, Inc.
Mechanical Engineer: James Partridge Associates, Inc.
Model: Juan de Dios Hernández, Jesús Rey
BUILDER:

Barton Malow Company