Maritime Museum

Fall 2022

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Level 2

The top level of the museum is dedicated to a cafe, outdoor patio spaces, along with private storage and a meeting room. In the Academy the top floor also holds an outdoor patio with a beautiful view of the river and several classrooms.

Level 3

In the museum, the level incorporates various research labs, offices and access points to the aquarium tanks. In the academy level 2 has multiple classrooms along with the upper level of the auditorium and the balcony of the event space.

Main Level

The museum's main level is where the story starts. Visitors begin on their journey descending down below the surface of history. The academy invites the students and other visitors to use the library, listen to lectures, and eat in a fine dining hall.

Below Grade

In the museum, visitors are now under the current, viewing the natural wildlife that influenced the art of shipbuilding; weaving through the forest of water before beginning their accent to the surface above.

Set in the navy yards park, banking the river’s edge, the project presented was to design a maritime museum, aquarium and academy. In response to the large and demanding program, I set out to separate the academy and the museum. To do this I took inspiration from the curving nature of whales and the tide and set out to create a campus that fully encapsulated the maritime nature of the building. The primary feature of the program was the gallery spaces of the museum, incorporated with the viewing tanks. To experience the gallery, the user is taken through a journey of time and nature, slowly descending to the basement level of the museum. Th ere they encounter a forest of aquatic spaces that transport them through the water until they emerge to see the show stopping ships. Th e design was made to be completely ADA compliant so that anyone can have the

same experience through this journey...