kimball art museum case study skylight

1. California Academy of Sciences

2. CONTEXT
• Location
• Introduction
• Facts
• Floor area calculation
• Concept
• Plan
• Selectin & Elevation
• Entrance
• Pathway
• Spaces
• Materials
• HVAC system

3. Introduction
•The Academy of Sciences in
California is the most current
museum by Renzo Piano
•It delivers an enlightened and
sustainable solution to a building
designed in the year 1934 with an
avant-garde design.
•This building, a masterpiece of
sustainable architecture, which
blends perfectly with the natural
sights of the park and technical
innovation more in line with
biodiversity and respect of nature,
values close to the dissemination
of science.

4. Pictures of
Old Museum

5. “A museum is a place
where one should
lose one`s head.”
- - - Renzo Piano - - -

6. • Architect : Renzo Piano
• Built in: 2005-2008
• Land Area: 112,000 m2
• Building Type : Natural History
• Owner : California Academy of Sciences
• Number of floors:4
• Places included : Kimball Natural History Museum, Steinhart Aquarium,
Morrison Planetarium, osher rainforest, along with eight scientific
research departments
• Specimens : Over 20 million scientific specimens
• Major Structural System : Steel
• Major HVAC system : Radiant Heating/Cooling System
• Cost : $500 million for new building after earthquake
Facts

7. Floor area calculations
•Ground Floor area – footprint
The building covers 400,000 square feet (37,000 square meters).
•Number of floors
The Academy is a single structure but contains multiple venues, including the
aquarium, the planetarium, the natural history museum and the 4-storey
rainforest. In addition, there's a 3D theater, a lecture hall, a Naturalist Center, two
restaurants, an adjacent garden and aviary, a roof terrace, and an Academy store.
•Total Building area
Total area: 410,000 ft2
Total public space: 100,000 ft2
Number of occupants :410,000 SF / (137 SF/Occupant) = 3000 Occupants

8. The Academy is located in one of the
green places of San Francisco, Goden
Park, California, USA.
Location
UNITED STATES
CALIFORNIA
SAN FRANCISCO

9. Concept
Evolution is a central concept of
modern science, and as such,
promoted by the Academy of Sciences,
which recognizes the evolution as the
foundation of understanding of
biodiversity and as a founding
principle of a scientific criticism. On
this basis and its dissemination to the
general public, the design by architect
Renzo Piano was awarded the contract
of this innovative and totally organic
project, largely because he shared the
belief concept.

10. Site Plan

11. Ground level

12. Sections

13. Sectional Elevation

14. Roof Plan
&
Green Roof
Detail

15. Entrance

16. Pathways/Corridors

17. Roof Plan

18. Closed
&
Open

20. Materials
• The choice of materials, recycling, the
positioning of the spaces with respect to the
natural lighting, natural ventilation, water
usage, rainwater recovery and energy
production: all of these design issues became
an integral part of the project itself, and
helped the museum obtain LEED platinum
certification
• Much of the input energy comes from solar
panels on the eaves above, and a remarkable
wisdom of Piano was to use native vegetation
for the green roof, so to minimize the
consumption of water in irrigation.
• For the rest, this building consumes between
30 to 35% less energy than required by law.
Skylight detail

21. Heating, ventilation and air conditioning
Heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) is the technology of indoor and vehicular
environmental comfort. Its goal is to provide thermal comfort and acceptable indoor air
quality.

22. Green Features : Energy Efficiency

23. Natural Light and
Ventilation
• 90% of the spaces have natural light and
outdoor views.
• The undulating line of sky allows
ventilation to the central square, which
disperses the cool air into the exhibition
spaces.
• The skylights are placed strategically so as
to illuminate the forest reserve and the
aquarium.
• Automated windows are opened and closed
to allow the entry of cold air as the
temperature inside fluctuates.
• Light sensors are activated according to the
amount of sunlight optimize artificial light.

25. Spaces
The museum consists of very unique
areas :
• Aquarium
• Planetarium
• Rainforest
• Exhibition Chambers
• Green Roof

26. Aquarium
•The Academy is home to species of
northern California and Philippine
coral reefs
•At 25 feet deep and holding 212,000
gallons of water, the Philippine Coral
Reef tank is one of the deepest
exhibits of live corals in the world.
•An elevator will allow the public to
walk through and below these huge
tanks.
•Home to nearly 40,000 animals, and
representing more than 900 separate
species.

28. Exhibition
Chambers
The exhibition halls will have access
to a portion of the roof, thus
creating spaces for outdoor
exhibition.
It includes exhibits on the evolution
of species in Madagascar and the
Galapagos Islands, and the effects of
climate change on California. There
is also a section devoted to Africa.

30. Planetarium
•One of the things most striking is the huge
green roof of about 100,000 square meters,
from where large domes rise, randomly
also lined with green.
•These domes are large spaces, such as the
planetarium or the reserve which houses a
green tropical forest and comes from inside
the building.
•75-foot dome displays one of the most
accurate digital universes ever created.
•Mimicking the tilt of planet earth, the frame
of the dome is composed of 100 percent
recycled steel
•It supports a nanoseam projection screen
that seems to disappear when lit, creating a
true-to-life recreation of luminous, faraway
space and skies.

31. Planetarium :
Inside and outside view

32. Rainforest
•Inside the dome, a magnificent neotropical
rainforest stretches 90 feet above.
•Following the spiral path up through the
sphere, you'll encounter three levels of
rainforest from three distinct ecosystems: a
Bornean forest floor, a Madagascan mid-
story, and the canopy of a Costa Rican
forest.
•From the canopy, plunge (via elevator) four
stories down for beneath-the-surface view
of an Amazonian flooded forest.

34. Green Roof
• The entire roof of the building, which is a hilly
area of 10,000 square meters in tribute to the
hills of San Francisco, is covered with 1.7
million native plants, will crown a public space
of 112,000 square meters. This “living roof”
serves to keep cool the interior of the building
and at once to collect some 13 million liters of
water a year to be re-used, largely by the
museum. It also has 60,000 photovoltaic cells
to generate energy and solar panels to produce
hot water. The properties of thermal insulation
will reduce the use of air conditioning.
• The museum has safe spaces for bicycles and
parking facilities for recharging electric
vehicles.

35. Group Members
• Harshita Gupta
• SushilKumar Gupta
• Rishab Jain
• Deepanjali Katkar
• Sayali Kudve
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