Northeast
Matthew Marks & Gladstone Galleries
SGH designed modifications to the 1930s structure to incorporate a new skylight, infill existing openings, construct a new exhibition platform on the roof, and remove an interior column.
Moscow, Russia
American National Exhibition
Scope/Solutions
SGH collaborated with MIT in 1959 on the design of the American National Exhibition in Moscow. SGH’s structural design takes advantage of the characteristics of the plastic material to achieve a unique architectural effect and an efficient structural system. At the time, the reinforced plastic parasols constituted a technological advance in the application of plastics to structural building use.
The plastic parasols employ a fiber-reinforced resin composite with high strength-to-weight and stiffness-to-weight ratios. The material was pultruded into shapes for the frames, exhibiting the material’s versatility for purposes of fabrication. The matrix plays a role in interlaminar shear strength under bending loads and in in-plane shear strength under torsional loadings.
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Project Summary
1959
Completion Date
Solutions
New Construction
Services
Structures | Advanced Analysis
Markets
Culture & Entertainment
Client(s)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Specialized Capabilities
Building Design | Computational Mechanics
Additional Projects
Northeast
Amant, 315 Maujer Street
Founded in 2019 by Lonti Ebers, an art collector and trustee of the Museum of Modern Art, Amant is a nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering creative works by providing resources and residencies to artists from all over the world.