Keep Exploring Architizer by Creating a Free Account or Logging in.

This feature is for industry professionals.  To unlock it, signup and then join or add your company. To unlock this feature,  signup and then submit your professional details.

Membership is Free.

LinkedIn Facebook Google
or
Already a Member? Sign in.
Add To Collection Add to Collection
Amherst College Earth Sciences Building and Museum of Natural History  

Amherst College Earth Sciences Building and Museum of Natural History

Amherst, MA, United States

View Original View Original
Add To Collection Add to Collection
View Original View Original
Add To Collection Add to Collection
View Original View Original
Add To Collection Add to Collection
View Original View Original
Add To Collection Add to Collection

Amherst College Earth Sciences Building and Museum of Natural History

Amherst, MA, United States

Firm
YEAR
2006
SIZE
25,000 sqft - 100,000 sqft
Amherst College?s Freshman Quad Master Plan prompted the relocation of the Earth Sciences Building and the Museum of Natural History. The new site, overlooking a valley, offered the opportunity to put the geological sciences on display for those traversing the main pathways in this part of the campus. The building?s articulation and use of materials reinterprets the campus?s architectural context in a manner both sympathetic and challenging.
 
Students move seamlessly between state-ofthe- art teaching labs and the new museum, which exhibits vertebrate and invertebrate paleontology, minerals and other geologic specimens and anthropological material. The museum?s collection of mammoth, mastodon and Irish elk skeletons is prominently visible at night through large glass openings that afford dramatic views into and out of the three-level museum space.
 
?Uniquely situated within its surroundings, the earth sciences building & Museum of Natural History stands confidently on campus ? at once emulating the spirit of the surrounding historic structures while setting a distinctly modern precedent for the campus? future growth.? Brick in Architecture 2008 Awards Jury
 
Project Awards Include:
BSA Higher Education, Citation for Design, 2009
Brick in Architecture, Ed. Building Best in Class, 2008
AIA/New England, Honor Award, 2007
BSA, Honor Award, 2007
Photographs: Warren Jagger Photography

Product Spec Sheet

Were your products used?
Join as a manufacturer to add your products.

Collaborating Firms

Architect

Team