架构师提供的文本描述。2012年12月6日，纽约-WORKAC对德克萨斯州休斯敦的布拉夫艺术博物馆进行了戏剧性的新扩建和翻新，对公众开放了一项为期20年的调查，专门针对有影响力的美国雕塑家托尼·费尔(TonyFeher)。

Text description provided by the architects. New York, 6 December 2012—WORKac’s dramatic new addition and renovation of the Blaffer Art Museum in Houston, Texas has opened to the public with a twenty-year survey dedicated to influential American sculptor Tony Feher.

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布拉夫艺术博物馆建于1973年，是一个杰出的当代艺术博物馆，在休斯敦大学巨大的中心校园中没有永久的藏品。由于展览是免费的，对公众开放，以及广泛的教育项目，博物馆有潜力成为大学和城市之间的门户。然而，它的能见度和特性以前受到阻碍，因为它的入口是隐蔽的，只有通过一个内部庭院才能进入。在内部，画廊受到流通的过度影响，其中包括两个画廊中间的楼梯，而另一个画廊只有通过行政办公室的走廊才能进入。

Founded in 1973, the Blaffer Art Museum is a preeminent contemporary art museum without a permanent collection set in the midst of University of Houston’s enormous central campus. With high-profile exhibitions that are free and open to the public, as well as extensive educational programs, the museum has the potential to act as a gateway between the university and the city. However, its visibility and identity were previously hampered by the fact that its entrance was hidden and accessible only through an internal courtyard. Within, its galleries were excessively impacted by circulation, including a stairway in the middle of two galleries, and another gallery only accessible by a hallway through the administrative offices.

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这个项目代表了后衰退时代博物馆设计方法的一个重要转变。为了只专注于他们的核心任务，布莱弗和休斯顿大学与WORKAC公司进行了战略上的重新思考。WORKAC的设计通过一系列富有想象力和经济的干预建筑的外观、流通模式和外部空间，为博物馆提供了引人注目的存在和公共连接。

The project represents an important shift in the approach to museum design in the post-recession age. In order to concentrate only on their core missions, the Blaffer and the University of Houston engaged WORKac to strategically rethink the building’s existing features. WORKac’s design gives the museum striking presence and public connectivity through a series of imaginative and economical interventions to the building’s facade, circulation patterns and exterior spaces.

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首先，WORKAC用一个新的入口展馆打开了这栋建筑以前空白的北面。这个突出的体积，在半透明和半透明的梯度上覆盖着通道玻璃，展示了一个新的大楼梯，它重新安排了从建筑物中心到立面的所有问题的循环路线，提供了博物馆内部活动的街面景观，同时也允许博物馆的画廊空间扩展和多样化。一个新的入口区，有一家咖啡馆，成为一个公共区域，将前亭和后庭院连接起来，让公众可以通过博物馆在城市和校园之间自由移动。

To begin, WORKac opened the previously blank north side of the building with a new entrance pavilion.  The projecting volume, clad with channel glass in a gradient of semi-transparent and translucent sections reveals a new grand staircase that reroutes all of the problematic circulation routes from the center of the building to the façade, providing street-level views of the museum’s interior activities, while also allowing for the expansion and diversification of the museum’s gallery spaces.  A new entrance zone with a café becomes a commons area that connects the front pavilion with the back courtyard, allowing the public to freely move between city and campus via the museum.

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由于承受不起悬臂和沉默寡言，无法简单地用一根柱子支撑入场亭的突出体积，WORKAC发明了“墙”，这是一种三角形的混凝土墙，在图形化地强调新的进入条件的同时，充当一根柱子。现有的后院将很快得到自己的升级，为持续不断的音乐、电影放映和其他与艺术相关的活动提供灵活和动态的环境。与SCAPE景观设计师合作构思的整个外部区域的新景观设计，给博物馆带来了一种充满活力的场所感，并增加了行人体验的节奏和规模。

Unable to afford a cantilever and reticent to simply support the projecting volume of the entry pavilion with a column, WORKac invented the “wallumn,” a triangular concrete wall that acts as a column while graphically emphasizing the new entry condition. The existing rear courtyard will soon receive its own upgrade, to provide a flexible and dynamic setting for a continuous program of music, film screenings and other art-related events.  New landscaping throughout the exterior area, conceived in partnership with SCAPE Landscape Architects, gives the museum an invigorated sense of place and adds to the rhythm and scale of the pedestrian experience. 

Architects WORKac

Location 3401 Cullen Boulevard, Houston, TX 77004, United States

Category Museum

Architect in Charge WORKac

Local Architects Gensler

Project Year 2012

Photographs Iwan Baan