Museum of Fine Arts, Houston - Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation Center for Conservation
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston - Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation Center for Conservation
Houston, TX
Owner
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Architect
Lake|Flato, Heaton Associates
Structural Engineer
Cardno Haynes Whaley
General Contractor
WS Bellows Construction
Location
Houston, TX, USA
Year Completed
2017
Project Size
9,000 ft²/ 840 m²
Timber Installer
StructureCraft
Sector
Cultural/Recreational
DLT Profile
Kerf Edge
Species
SPF
Finish
KP-12
Project Description
The campus of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston underwent a bold transformation with two new buildings, a conservation building, and a landscape plan that knit the buildings together.
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston is the first project to use Dowel Laminated Timber (DLT) in North America. The mass timber structure is comprised of DLT roof panels on a Glulam post and beam substructure. The DLT panels utilize an architectural kerf cut profile on the exposed underside surface, which provides a clean shadow reveal at every board.
