cincinnati masonry museum
How do we display our appreciation for historic materiality? Historic form? I aim to highlight the significance of masonry in the Cincinnati area by utilizing brick in a manner that deviates from its past uses. In the masonry institute, brick makes an appearance as an aesthetic material, but it is deliberately disregarded as a structural material. Masonry is celebrated by its utilization as a design piece and by not being used as it has been in the past. 
building data:
site area: 17,760sqft / 1,650sqm
gross floor area: 46,823sqft / 4,350sqm
number of levels: 4
footprint: 15,607sqft / 1,450sqm
length: 172.5ft / 52.5m
width: 126ft / 39.5m
height: 44ft / 13.5m

use / function:
museum
exhibition spaces: 15,607sqft / 1,450sqm
workshop: 7804sqft / 725sqm
library/archive: 3902sqft / 362.5sqm
temporary gallery: 19516sqft / 181.25sqm
cafe/giftshop: 19516sqft / 181.25sqm
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