Jury comments: This elegant new museum occupies a prominent site at the entrance to a private college campus, anchoring the edge of a newly formed arts quad. Visitors enter through an open and glazed archive. Transparency through the archive cases provides students and visitors with a “behind the scenes” look into the workings of the museum’s restoration laboratory and administrative offices, and reinforces the project’s teaching mission. Some galleries are reconfigurable, encouraging innovative uses. With clarity and a nice composition of materials, the central idea about transparency is followed all the way through. The design is consistently austere–which is not necessarily a positive.
Client: Hamilton College
Contractor: Bette & Cring
Consultants: RSE Associates; Altieri Sebor Wieber; Four Congress Park Centre; Earth Sensitive Solutions; Reed Hilderbrand; George Sexton Associates; Simpson Gumpertz & Heger; Rolf Jensen and Associates; Acoustic Dimensions; Collective Wisdom Corporation; Baer & Associates; Goppion Museum Workshop
