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Steven S. Koblik Education & Visitor Center
Steven S. Koblik Education & Visitor Center
San Marino
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Steven S. Koblik Education & Visitor Center
San Marino
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2015
SIZE
100,000 sqft - 300,000 sqft
BUDGET
Undisclosed
The Steven S. Koblik Education & Visitor Center at The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens serves a welcoming new front door for Henry Huntington’s historic 200-acre estate. Over eight acres of new buildings and gardens create seamlessly integrated places for arrival, orientation, and education while preserving the scale and character of the original historic estate.
The primary objectives of the Huntington’s program were as follows:
• To create a new entrance experience to the site, guiding visitors from the arrival road and parking areas to ticket purchase and through to the historic core facilities of the property in a manner that allows for clarity of movement, visitor comfort, and site security.
• To design state-of-the-art program facilities to support the Huntington’s collections-based research and education mission and its visitors’ needs, including ticketing and visitor arrival areas, a 400-seat lecture hall, a large multipurpose meeting room, classrooms, a retail store, food service/dining areas, secure collections storage areas connected to the library, and service areas.
• To create new gardens that connect to the historic circulation systems and landscapes of the estate while adding beautiful places for gathering; new, diverse plant collections; and educational opportunities.
• To preserve the historic character of the estate.
Rather than developing the program as one large building that would overwhelm the existing site and building relationships, the architect and landscape architect designed a series of smaller structures at the same scale as the historic estate’s outbuildings, all arranged around new gardens and terraces. The resulting complex creates a human-scaled environment of exterior courtyards and gardens, each integrated with an element of the building program. The buildings’ layout, form, and material palette were also designed to relate to and complement the classical structures designed by Myron Hunt and William Russell Pope, while expressing their own contemporary character and meeting the modern program and visitor needs of the Huntington.
The primary objectives of the Huntington’s program were as follows:
• To create a new entrance experience to the site, guiding visitors from the arrival road and parking areas to ticket purchase and through to the historic core facilities of the property in a manner that allows for clarity of movement, visitor comfort, and site security.
• To design state-of-the-art program facilities to support the Huntington’s collections-based research and education mission and its visitors’ needs, including ticketing and visitor arrival areas, a 400-seat lecture hall, a large multipurpose meeting room, classrooms, a retail store, food service/dining areas, secure collections storage areas connected to the library, and service areas.
• To create new gardens that connect to the historic circulation systems and landscapes of the estate while adding beautiful places for gathering; new, diverse plant collections; and educational opportunities.
• To preserve the historic character of the estate.
Rather than developing the program as one large building that would overwhelm the existing site and building relationships, the architect and landscape architect designed a series of smaller structures at the same scale as the historic estate’s outbuildings, all arranged around new gardens and terraces. The resulting complex creates a human-scaled environment of exterior courtyards and gardens, each integrated with an element of the building program. The buildings’ layout, form, and material palette were also designed to relate to and complement the classical structures designed by Myron Hunt and William Russell Pope, while expressing their own contemporary character and meeting the modern program and visitor needs of the Huntington.
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