Eli & Edythe Broad Art Museum is a contemporary art museum located in East Lansing, Michigan on Michigan State University’s campus. The 46,000 square foot space was designed by Pritzker Prize-winning and internationally known architect Zaha Hadid as “an ever-changing appearance that arouses curiosity yet never quite reveals its content” (Zaha Hadid).

The interior walls and ceilings were framed in different planes creating rooms without any conventional shapes. While the exterior walls were built with multifaceted sides of pleated stainless steel and glass. All of the walls had to be built using BIM system pre-determined coordinates. The exterior walls were framed and sheathed within a ¼” tolerance in all planes because of the stainless steal siding system the prefabricated in Germany and could not be cut to install in the field. Precision and expertise were required in all areas of this project to meet the very tight tolerances and high drywall finishes with the elevated lighting of the Art Museum.

General Contractor:

Barton Malow

Location Address:

East Lansing, MI

Completion Date:

2012

Project Scope:

Metal Studs

Drywall

Acoustical Insulation

Full Wood Backing at Interior & Exterior Walls