The Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati is the first new art museum built in Cincinnati since 1880. An international competition was held to design the museum, and Zaha Hadid was selected as the winning architect. Her design features stacked volumes that contrast with neighboring blocks and impose density through dissolution and dispersion. The ground floor lobby is highly transparent and open, intended to blend the interior with the exterior city street. A grand suspended staircase provides access to the six floors of gallery space above, which are closed off from windows and have concrete exterior walls that can flexibly accommodate different exhibits.

1. Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati

2. Center for
Contemporary
Art in
Cincinnati
Architect :Zaha Hadid
Year(s) of
construction :2003
Location:Cincinnati,
Ohio, United States
Coordinates:39° 6'
10" N, 84° 30' 43" W
INTRODUCTION
 After CAM (Cincinnati Art Museum),
inaugurated in 1880, the Center for
Contemporary Art Lois & Richard Rosenthal
(ACC) is the first new museum in Cincinnati.
 To achieve them, was called for an international
competition which involved 97 studies.
 The winning project was the Anglo-Iraqi
architect Zaha Hadid, who had reached the final
selection along with Daniel Libeskind and
Bernard Tschumi.
 This is the first building designed by Zaha Hadid
in America.
 The center is devoted to developments in
painting, sculpture, photography, architecture
and new media.
 In addition to significantly expanding the space
available to the museum, the new building to
organize new activities, especially educational
and interactive form, even for children.

3. LOCATION
 Located in the city center, at the intersection of
Walnut Street and Sixth.

4. CONCEPT
 One concept which is based on the design is the contrast between the
extremes: the heavy foreign body and the opening of the interior
spaces.
 Another of the main concepts presented here is "urban carpet", which
produces a business continuity between the urban street and the
building.
 The surface of the street enters the building and is bent upward
movement the idea of creating vertical and urban space.
 In terms of exhibition spaces have been designed with the idea of
adapting to changes in the art, so that may be presented as traditional
works such as facilities that take advantage of interactivity and
technology.
 In contrast to the neighboring blocks, this building is embodied in a
composition of stacked volumes that stretch the limits of its
compressed ground.
 Between dissolution and dispersion, it imposes density and intensity.

6. SPACES
 At ground floor of the lobby walls of glass is as open as can be, with a
minimum of structure and no change in level between the inside and
outside.
 The hall of the building seems to be part of the street, with the city and
other buildings across the street.
 Furthermore, the roof of the hall looks like a large bas be glimpsed on the
upper galleries.
 The hall takes all the heights, providing light throughout the building.
 A grand staircase was suspended throughout the hall, creating a clear sense
of movement and dynamism.
 Flights through a vacuum in unanticipated long stretches and intersections
of oblique and acute angles, you reach the top six floors of exhibits, while
another staircase that is born of a cut in the ground, leading to the lower
floors.
 It was through her that embodies the concept of inner city.
 The exhibition spaces are open from space of the staircase and the deep
vacuum and watch over him.

7.  In the exhibition spaces, comprising six storeys high, is the
opposite effect to the grand opening of the ground floor are
closed to the outside and have no windows, just outside walls
of concrete.
 With the termination of the building and limited simply
organizing the exhibition galleries, the spaces can be modified
for different exhibitions and installations.
 The galleries are designed with varying ratios.
 The variety in the internal functions is expressed in the same
way, in the blocks stacked on the outside.
 In this facade is expressed in a kind of negative stress, and
suggests that reproduces the shapes of the interior.

8. LOWER LEVEL PLAN

9. GROUND FLOOR PLAN

10. FIRST FLOOR PLAN

11. SECOND FLOOR

12. SECTION

13. SECTION

14. SECTION

15. MATERIALS USED
 Built in concrete, glass and steel staircase.

16. MODEL

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