2018 IDEAS2 Awards Brochure - 40

Rather than being an afterthought or add-on, the undulating steel canopy
ties the buildings together, making them a cohesive whole.
-Lynda Leigh

The Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at the
University of California, Davis, sits at the edge of a frontier of
sorts-on the edge of campus and town, across a major Interstate
from farmland.
The project is visually defined and covered by a 50,000-sq.-ft
undulating canopy over the building and the majority of the remaining site. The varying angles and porosity of the canopy infill
members filter and reflect sunlight, creating an experience that
changes throughout the day and from season to season.
The canopy is supported by round HSS sections of varying
diameters ranging dramatically in height from 15 ft to 35 ft, all
supporting HSS14×10 girders and beams. They in turn support
triangular, perforated aluminum infill beams of varying spacing, orientations and perforations. The canopy columns are each
founded on a concrete drilled pier, creating a "flag pole" system
of cantilevered columns. The canopy is tied to the building pa-

vilions, so lateral forces are shared by the cantilever columns and
the lateral system-made of buckling-restrained braced frames
(BRBFs)-and the canopy girders function as seismic collectors.
The museum program itself includes a set of irregularly shaped
one-story and two-story pavilions providing gallery, studio, community, administrative and service space-all linked together by
a low roof and the canopy above. Framing for the pavilions consists of concrete fill on metal deck diaphragms supported by steel
beams and girders, with steel columns bearing on spread footings
and grade beams. Steel framing efficiently supported the longspan roofs over large galleries and could be manipulated to address
complicated skewed conditions, sloping and intersecting roofs and
various cantilevered regions.
For more on the UC Davis Shrem Museum, see "Above All, Art" at
www.modernsteel.com/shrem.

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