PROJECT A New Gateway: Baltimore Maritime Museum
LOCATION Lazaretto Point, Baltimore, Maryland USA
PROJECT COMPLETION DATE 5/6/2016
PROJECT CATEGORY Undergraduate / Upper Level Design
PROJECT TYPE Studio
ENTRANT Gi Joon Sim
TEAM MEMBERS
SCHOOL University of Maryland School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation
FACULTY SPONSOR James W. Tilghman, Clinical Associate Professor / Architecture
SUMMARY DESCRIPTION OF PROJECT
Building Design: Baltimore Waterfront Institute (BWI) , is an outgrowth of our speculation on the nature of a new waterfront economy fro Baltimore and the many local and international influences on the development of Baltimore as a significant trading port. BWI is conceived of as an exhibition and maker space that has the flexibility to offer both the local community and the City a venue for the exhibition of the creative, technological and cultural artifacts of the present and the future. The objectives of the project is to design a complete environment for Public engagement for an Institution devoted to the exhibition of creative and experimental products and artifacts on the Baltimore waterfront. To speculate through design on a beyond net zero addition to the City of Baltimore, and how our design can point the way for future development of the Waterfront in the context of coastal resilience.
STUDENT'S STATEMENT
On the mouth of Baltimore's Inner Harbor, Lazaretto Point was an excellent place for a "Destination," potentially enclosing the inner harbor waterfront promenades. Phase One of the master plan (previously done as a team) introduces the destination, a circular plan of cultural centers, resembling For McHenry's plan right across the harbor as the new gateway to the city. Phase Two introduces a new typology of communities along the piers with a raised pedestrian bridge called "Harbor Line," in an effort to connect the promenades. The Harbor Line also relocated pedestrians from the vehicular-heavy road running adjacent to industrial land on west out to and above water allowing safe and friendly environments through new communities.
The Baltimore Maritime Institute projects over the raised pedestrian bridge and beyond water to mark an important threshold to Lazaretto Point and to the inner harbor. Its impressive extension out to the water also expresses it desire to communicate programmatic aspects of the institute.
The volume's massive truss structure cantilevers over the public plaza created by the Harbor Line to emphasizes the industrial history of the Baltimore, while the envelope of the institute suggests its movement to the future and beyond.
IMAGE CAPTIONS & CREDITS
IMAGE 1: ANewGateway high res image1_Main Perspective_Gi Joon Sim
IMAGE 2: ANewGateway high res image2_Bird-eye View_Gi Joon Sim
IMAGE 3: ANewGateway image3_Baltimore_Gi Joon Sim
IMAGE 4: ANewGateway image4_Waterfront Promenades_Gi Joon Sim
IMAGE 5: ANewGateway image5_Sections_Gi Joon Sim
IMAGE 6: ANewGateway image6_Section Detail_Gi Joon Sim
IMAGE 7: ANewGateway image7_Inteiror Perspective_Gi Joon Sim
MEDIA FOR DOWNLOAD
A New Gateway: Baltimore Maritime Museum
Category
AIA Maryland Student Design Awards > Undergraduate > Undergraduate / Upper Level Design
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