The
Glass Pavilion at the Toledo Museum of Art includes
exhibition areas, a glass-making facility, cafeteria,
a multi-purpose room, and related function/ administrative
areas. The 56,000 square foot all-glass museum presented
numerous engineering challenges, above and beyond the
need for systems that ensure proper museum temperature,
humidity and air quality.
Primary among these was the need to select, configure
and place building systems within a building that, with
its all glass interior and exterior walls and its minimal
spandrel at the roof line, was designed to be transparent.
This left no room for distribution within the ceiling
sandwich. Cosentini’s solution was to provide
displacement ventilation within the facility’s
public spaces, as well as radiant heating and cooling
within the double wall skin, which was also engineered
to use heat recovered from a basement-level hot glass
production shop. Radiant heating and cooling along the
perimeter dramatically reduce the facility’s energy
consumption and compensate for energy loss through the
all-glass walls. In addition, pressurized air supply
within the wall cavities was provided to prevent condensation
and infiltration.
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