Van Gogh

Samantha Gruettner

Extra Credit Assignment

O Hare

5/8/2012

Cleveland Clinic

The research facilities, clinical facilities, and offices are located within a four-story block that has been articulated as a series of offset rectangular shapes in white plaster and glass. While not in the immediate view of the project from the corner of the site, this is the actual front of the building serving as employee, patient and public entrance. The more public building uses are detached from the medical facilities across a dramatic covered trellis courtyard near the corner of the site. These program functions are entered via an exterior breezeway through the medical office building. The Keep Memory Alive Event Center is contained within an expressive metal and glass form that is articulated as a curvilinear metal façade and roof with punched-window/skylight openings. The roof is made of stainless steel membrane. When I went and saw this structure I noticed the glass and aluminum-glazing coming off the building, which does not reduce the temperature outside and the sharp straight edges. It was very interesting because I have never seen a building like this before. The building has over 199 windows and which none are alike which amazed me. It has rectangular openings that shade the courtyard area between the medical facility and the event center and four vertical structures that conduct HVAC water and electricity. Each piece of steal contains 60-100 bolts that lock the pieces of steel together to each other. There was a layer of black rubber installed to ensure the building and keep the watertight. There are different pieces to the building, the medical area and an event center with the water flowing through it. This building was like nothing that I’ve ever seen before because most buildings these days all look the same and boring, but after looking at this building its almost like I want all buildings to have some sort of design or structure that...