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Architects:• Landscape: Alfred

Caldwell• Consultant: Ludwig

Mies van der Rohe• Record: Ludwig Mies

van der Rohe

Alfred Caldwell

• Born:– May 26, 1903– St. Louis, Missouri

• Died:– 1998 (age 95)– Bristol, Wisconsin

• Nationality: American• Occupation : Architect• Projects:

– Lily Pool, Chicago, Illinois– Eagle Point Park, Dubuque, Iowa

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

• BIRTH- – March 27, 1886– Aachen, Kingdom of Prussia , German

Empire

• DIED- – August 19, 1969 (aged 83)– Chicago, Illinois, U.S.

• Began CAREER with father(stonemason)• Director of Berlin's Bauhaus• German-American architect• Leader of Modern Architecture

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

BUILDINGS• Barcelona Pavilion• Tugendhat House• Crown Hall• Farnsworth House• 860–880 Lake Shore Drive• Seagram Building• New National Gallery• Toronto-Dominion Centre• Westmount Square

AWARDS• Pour le Mérite (1959)• Royal Gold Medal (1959)• AIA Gold Medal (1960)• Presidential Medal of Freedom

(1963)

• "skin and bones" • "less is more"• "God is in the details.

POPULAR STATMENTS

On March 27, 2012, Mies van der Rohe's 126th birthday, Google honored the architect and this icon

of his achievement with a poetic doodle of Crown Hall.

CASE STUDY

Name of Building: Crown Hall, Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT)Location: 3360 S. State Street, Chicago, Cook County, IllinoisOwner: Illinois Institute of TechnologyCentrally located on the campus of the Illinois Institute of Technology, two miles south of

downtown Chicago, Illinois, the building houses IIT's school of architecture.

Crown Hall, Illinois Institute of Technology

Status: existing (renovated)Type: Architectural SchoolConstruction:

Started: 1950Completed: 1956

2005 (restoration completion), 1956 (original completion)

Opening: 1956

Cost: $750,000 (original)$15 million renovation

Management:-wasn’t properly maintained

through the years that’s why it had to be restored to its proper glory in 2005.

Height (roof): 5.48mfirst floor: 3.05mbasement: 2.43m

Technical Details:Floor count: 2Total floor area: 36 x 67 m =

2412 sq mLifts/Elevators: none

FLOOR PLAN

LONGITUDINAL SECTION

ELEVATION CROSS SECTION

Basement FLOOR PLAN

DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION

The design for Crown Hall is said to be derived from the Cantor Drive-In Restaurant which Mies van der Rohe had recently designed in 1945. Crown Hall is characterized by an aesthetic of industrial simplicity with articulated exposed steel frame construction

DESIGN

DESIGN• Mies called the Crown Hall a

"universal space", because its design permits change in the function of the building while the architecture focuses on the permanence of the building's surroundings.

• Upon its opening, Mies van der Rohe declared it "the clearest structure we have done, the best to express our philosophy".

• One critic calls it the Parthenon of the 20th Century.

SPACES

2 levels – the main floor,

shaped like a large space

– a semi-buried where they located the offices, meeting rooms and other services.

• The main floor, which occupies 50% of the building, comprising a single glass-enclosed space devoted to the study of architecture.

• The divisions that has very few moving parts, made with lightweight panels that allow you to place the space as required.

The vegetation surrounding the building

is a calm working environment, helps

regulate the sunlight on the glass facade and makes the view much more pleasant

for users inside the building.

MATERIALS• The main materials are – steel, reinforced concrete and glass.

• In 2005 the restoration of the original painting of the steel structure was replaced by a lead-free black Tnemec urethane coating

• The glass was replaced in its entirety by panels that meet the wind load requirements.

• The surface of the travertine terrace in the south was replaced.

• Interior wood partitions and storage lockers were refinished and resurfaced

• electrical and ethernet wiring was added to the main floor

MATERIAL

• The upper 3.05 m is clear glass to allow more natural light in as well as viewing of the clouds and sky.

• The lower 2.43 m of glass encircling the steel frame is a glazed transparency meant to allow for few outside distractions.

• This results in a delicate steel and glass facade enclosing an open plane. glazed transparency

Clear glass

STRUCTURE

• The enclosed space is column free with – 4 six ft. steel plate girders

welded to – 8 H-columns– These girders suspend the roof

in a single plane to form a primary structure.

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exposed, expressed steel

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“A spectacular building constructed out of steel and glass, it has no interior supports and the roof is

suspended from four steel girders.”

RENOVATION(BEFORE)

RENOVATIONPLANS

Krueck+Sexton Architects

RENOVATION

DURING

RENOVATION (AFTER)

SPECIAL FEATURES• The column-free open plan of the main floor of Crown Hall demonstrates Mies' innovative

concept of creating universal space that can be infinitely adapted to changing use. Its expansive size of 120' x 220' feet in floor area, with a ceiling height of 18 feet, allows individual classes to be held simultaneously without disruption while maintaining creative interaction between faculty and students.

• The roof of the building is suspended from the underside of four steel plate girders. The girders are themselves supported by eight exterior steel columns, spaced at 60 foot intervals. The interior is divided by free-standing oak partitions that demark spaces for classes, lectures and exhibits.

• S.R. Crown Hall, erected in 1955, was considered by Mies to be one of his greatest architectural achievements. To provide for a flexible, columnless interior, he suspended the roof from four steel girders supported by eight external columns spaced 60 feet apart. S.R. Crown Hall, home to Illinois Tech’s College of Architecture, has been described as an "immortal contribution to the architecture of Chicago and the world." S.R. Crown Hall was granted National Historic Landmark status in 2001.

• A $15 million renovation, completed in August 2005, modernized the structure with energy-saving mechanicals and windows, along with needed technology upgrades for computers and the Internet—all while carefully preserving the architectural integrity of the building, inside and out. Additional improvements were completed in 2013

AWARDS

• 2001 S. R. Crown Hall was granted National Historic Landmark status by the National Parks Service, U. S. Department of the Interior

• 2005 Honor Award from Chicago Landmarks Commission.• 2005 Commission on Chicago Landmarks. Preservation Excellence

Award.• 2006 Chicago Chapter AIA Honor Award.• 2006 Chicago Building Congress Merit Award• 2006 Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Preservation Award for Project

of the Year from Landmark Illinois• 2006 Citation of Merit from AIA Chicago• 2007 Chicago Architectural Foundation Patron of the Year Award

The Creator's Words"The essence of space is not determined by the mere presence of limiting surfaces but by the

spiritual principle of this limitation. The true task of architecture is to let the structure articulate the

space; it is not the building that is the work of art but space."

REFERENCE

• http://en.wikiarquitectura.com/index.php/Crown_Hall• http://www.openhousechicago.org/site/201/• http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/crown_hall.html• http://www.miessociety.org/legacy/projects/crown-hall/• http://galleryhip.com/crown-hall-sketch.html• http://www.metalocus.es/content/en/blog/restoring-mies-van-der-roh

e-sr-crown-hall• http://arch.iit.edu/prize• https://www.asla.org/lamag/lam06/September/feature3.html• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._R._Crown_Hall• http://www.academia.edu/9117868/S.R._Crown_Hall• http://www.moderndesign.org/2012_06_01_archive.html