Magazzino Robert Olnick Pavilion
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Location: Cold Spring, NY, USA
Completion Date: September 2023
Architect: Alberto Campo Baeza and Miguel Quismondo
Client: Nancy Olnick and Giorgio Spanu
Type: Institutional
Size: 13,000 sq.ft.
Status: Built
Photography:
William Mulvihill, Courtesy of MQ Architecture.
Marco Anelli & Tommaso Sacconi, Courtesy of Magazzino Italian Art.
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The Robert Olnick Pavilion — the second building on Magazzino’s campus — was designed by the Spanish architects Alberto Campo Baeza and Miguel Quismondo. The pavilion has a humble layout that highlights industrial materials and an aesthetically neutral environment that provides an additional 13,000 square feet of new exhibition space.
The purpose of the lighting design was for luminaires to disappear and perfectly blend with the minimal architecture. Galleries are softly and uniformly lit, with low-glare luminaires installed in tracks for full flexibility. The light sources used, combined with their spacing and carefully calibrated location from the gallery walls, allow for a shadow free art wall illumination. The cafe and shop have millwork integrated lighting to celebrate the intended relaxing nature of this space, where one can admire the landscape.
The sunken garden, the exterior extension of the basement multi-purpose room, acts as a space of congregation extending the experience from inside out. The lighting emphasizes the relationship between the interior and exterior and creates a dramatic backdrop to the space.
Low level and low glare step lights are installed around the exterior perimeter of the building to provide soft path illumination, nighttime security and to remain respectful of the wild landscape of the campus.
