Aspen Art Museum, Colorado

[ad_1] Photography: Micheal Moran; courtesy the architect . Ar. Shigeru Ban’s Aspen Art Museum sits in a glass box wrapped in a wooden lattice frame, upheld by the architect’s reinventive design approach... Set high in the Rockies in the ski town of Aspen, Colorado, the 33,000 sq. ft museum designed by Japanese architect Shigeru Ban adopts an innovative climate design concept and maximized opportunities for day-lighting, while mediating direct solar gain; besides anointing the surroundings with a categorical building facade. . Based on five distinctive elements: the Moving room or the glass reception elevator; ‘walk-able’ skylights on the roof-top sculpture garden; […]