The US Olympic and Paralympic Museum in Colorado is as grand as the history it holds. The structure is wrapped in a steel structure that is almost like an Olympic athlete’s costume stretched over the museum. The steel structure is composed of 9,000 diamond-shaped panels! Not only is the outside beautiful and well-thought of, but so its interior. The galleries of the museum are built around a spiralling ramp to make it accessible to everyone, as Dezeen detailed:
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Located in downtown Colorado Springs, the museum is composed of four steel-covered volumes arranged in a pinwheel formation that contain the galleries, an auditorium and events space.
The metalwork is composed of 9,000 diamond-shaped panels that are marked in the middle and lift up in the centre to create a play of light and shadow across the facade
“The folding of the diamond into triangles was just the initial idea,” Gilmartin continued.
“But then we played with the shaping, we did a lot of model testing, digital studies and things like that and found that it has a really nice reaction to light. The kind of fold in the panels makes a kind of highlight with the upper part that’s tilted towards the sky, and a kind of a shadow to where it tilts down on the lower half,” he added.
“We saw [the] possibility for the kind of diamond scales or elements across the surface to really animate the surface as the light changes in Colorado Springs throughout the day.”
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