The Lucas Museum - Extraordinary Challenges, Extraordinary Systems

“So you have to design, engineer, fabricate all those extraordinary unique pieces and create a system for assembling them. It’s a monumentally complicated undertaking.” Michael Siegel, executive architect

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The Lucas Museum Finds Your Lack of Faith Disturbing

By Adam Nagourney for The New York Times

The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art demonstrates the extraordinary challenge of turning ambitious architectural geometry into a buildable reality. Designed by MAD Architects, the sweeping, organic structure required sophisticated engineering, digital coordination, fabrication, and construction methods to achieve its flowing form. More than a museum, the billion-dollar project illustrates how advances in design and construction technology are enabling teams to translate increasingly complex architectural visions into precisely fabricated, constructible buildings.

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Curved freeform architectural metal wall framing made cold-formed light gauge metal framing and glass panels.
Shaded 3D model of metal framing over steel structure used for architectural and structural building coordination

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