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    The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas houses an art collection and traveling exhibitions. Architect Louis Kahn designed the building in 1972 using a barrel vault structure with repeating cycloid vaults to provide natural light. The concrete vaults are supported by double columns and single beams, creating a subtle luminosity. Travertine from Italy and white oak were also used as durable, natural materials.

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    The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas houses an art collection and traveling exhibitions. Architect Louis Kahn designed the building in 1972 using a barrel vault structure with repeating cycloid vaults to provide natural light. The concrete vaults are supported by double columns and single beams, creating a subtle luminosity. Travertine from Italy and white oak were also used as durable, natural materials.

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    The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas houses an art collection and traveling exhibitions. Architect Louis Kahn designed the building in 1972 using a barrel vault structure with repeating cycloid vaults to provide natural light. The concrete vaults are supported by double columns and single beams, creating a subtle luminosity. Travertine from Italy and white oak were also used as durable, natural materials.

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    ABCM Dome & Shell Structure - CASE STUDY - Group B3

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    The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas houses an art collection and traveling exhibitions. Architect Louis Kahn designed the building in 1972 using a barrel vault structure with repeating cycloid vaults to provide natural light. The concrete vaults are supported by double columns and single beams, creating a subtle luminosity. Travertine from Italy and white oak were also used as durable, natural materials.

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    A.B.C.M.

    Casestudy

    SHELL STRUCTURE DOMES & VAULTS


    Group-3 Shubham kambli|Amey deshmukh |Vivek patil
    About The Structure:

    PROJECT DATA

    Architect: Louis L Kahn


    Built: 1972
    Location: Fort Worth, Texas, USA.
    Materials: Concrete, Travertine, And White Oak.

    Project description:

    - The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, hosts an


    art collection as well as traveling art exhibitions,
    educational programs and an extensive research
    library.
    - Its initial artwork came from the private collection of
    Kay and Velma Kimbell, who also provided funds for a
    new building to house it.
    - The building was designed by architect Louis I.
    Kahn and is widely recognized as one of the most
    significant works of architecture of recent times. It is
    especially noted for the wash of silvery natural light
    across its vaulted gallery ceilings.
    Building Scale

    LONG LOW PROFILE

    Ar. Louis Kahn’s original building faced strict height restrictions so as not to block the view of the Fort Worth Skyline from Philip Johnson’s
    Amon Carter Museum
    Structure

    ARCUATED

    Ar. Louis Kahn's use of the vault form in the Kimbell is complex. On the one hand, as in much of his work there is a gesture to ancient,
    even primeval, relationships between humans and the natural world. in the West, the vault immediately evokes thoughts of Roman
    Architecture in particular, with its connotations of permanence, publicness and grandeur. However, the vaults are only vaults at a visual
    level. By resting their corners on beams, rather than on continuous walls, Kahn is complicating, perhaps even subverting, their
    monumental effect.
    Structure
    DOUBLE COLUMN + SINGLE BEAM
    Kahn uses a system of double columns that provides a space between vaulted bays, each column supporting a single beam- end (the
    vaults here appearing in their actual structural role as beams)

    Kahn's project architect for the Kimbell


    museum, revealed that using a cycloid curve
    for the gallery vaults would reduce the ceiling
    height and provide other benefits as well. The relatively
    flat cycloid curve would produce elegant galleries that
    were wide in proportion to their height, allowing the ceiling
    to be lowered to 20 feet (6 m. More importantly, that curve
    could also be used to produce a beautiful distribution of
    natural light from a slot in the top of the gallery across the
    entire gallery ceiling
    Roof Form
    The Profile of the Repeated Curve Of the Cycloid Vaults is one of the most immediate formal impressions of the Kimbell Art museum

    The basic plan is composed of


    sixteen cycloid vaults (100 x 20
    feet) that are arranged in three
    parallel units of six, four, and six
    in the Kimbell.
    Materials: Structural System:
    Concrete-Ar. Louis Kahn viewed concrete Barrel Vault Structure
    as both an aesthetic and structural
    choice. In the Kimbell’s galleries, concrete The Barrel vault is one of the commonly used shell
    vaults shimmer with light to create a structures because of its greater span capacity. These
    subtle luminosity. Reinforced concrete types of Shell structures have a span capacity of up to
    also supports the weight of the structure in 50m. The barrel vaults are concrete thin shells that mainly
    the form of vaults, walls, and piers. consist of the cylinder, frame at its ends including columns.

    Travertine - Travertine, on the other hand,


    acts only as “in-fill” material. The travertine Components of Barrel Vault Structure at Kimbell Art
    used for the Kimbell was imported from Museum
    Tivoli, near Rome, Italy. This material is
    riddled with irregularly shaped holes left
    by gases and pieces of vegetation
    trapped in hardened layers of calcium
    carbonate. Travertine is a durable
    material and has been used since
    antiquity for countless buildings.
    White oak - It was selected for the gallery
    floors, doors, and cabinetry; anodized
    aluminum (a light-weight metal noted for
    its high reflectivity that has been covered
    with a protective oxide coating) for the
    soffits and reflectors; and mill-finished
    steel for windows and door frames,
    elevators, and handrails, as well as in the
    kitchen, conservation studio, and
    darkroom.

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