We are excited to be partnering with the firm of Gauchat/Santos on the new National Coast Guard Museum located on the Thames River waterfront in New London, CT. The 54,000 GSF museum will anchor a complex including a new terminal building for the Cross Sound Ferry and a pedestrian bridge linking the downtown to the city’s waterfront across the Amtrak rail lines. Local, state and national officials touted the project’s potential to have a transformative effect on the city and region at a public unveiling in early April. The goal is to break ground within 11 months and open the museum by late 2017.
The project intends to create a dynamic architectural space where the story of the United States Coast Guard can be told through interactive exhibits meant to engage the public. The building will be organized around a large atrium linking four floors of exhibits, event space, lecture rooms and café. A multi-story double-skin façade will face south onto the existing City Pier Promenade and beyond out to Long Island Sound.
This is a significant cultural project consistent with our focus on high technology buildings and specifically museums.
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Sandrine Héroux, Sophie McKenzie, and Emily Chowdhury are each members of our in-house Fabrication team. Their day-to-day work centers on a simple question: what changes when design becomes something people can physically test?
These women challenge the notion of fabrication as a support service, framing it instead as an essential component of architectural authorship, a way to test ideas, share agency, and widen the boundaries of what architectural practice can include.
In our most recent blog, they discuss their individual paths in architecture and reflect on their experience using fabrication as a tool for fostering shared agency, community engagement and broadening the role of the architect. Link in bio!
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