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Amherst College Earth Sciences Building and Museum of Natural History
Amherst College Earth Sciences Building and Museum of Natural History
Amherst, MA, United States
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Amherst College Earth Sciences Building and Museum of Natural History
Amherst, MA, United States
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
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
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