Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College

Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College houses and exhibits student and national artist’s works. The space provides a place to teach, research and expand Rollins’ outreach to the surrounding community.  It was important to provide a facility that was expandable, flexible and architecturally sensitive to the Rollins College’s picturesque campus architecture. With the exception of the Cornell Fine Arts Museum entry and lobby, one of the greatest design challenges was to design a windowless building with 360 degree views that were architecturally pleasing and significant. This was done by carefully crafting the building mass and using stylistic elements such as buttresses, a water table base, slate and travertine infill to this textured stucco building. Inside there is a state-of-the-art lighting and air conditioning system to protect the environment for the preservation of art.