Allied Works has shared a new fly-through animation of their Palmer Museum of Art project on the campus of Penn State University. The 71,254-square-foot museum offers a significant upgrade to the university’s previous 50-year-old facility.
The animation showcases the site’s enhanced connection to the Penn State Arboretum and the museum's expanded double-height gallery spaces that allow for twice the amount of its collection to be exhibited versus the original building.
The sandstone-clad design incorporates two interlocking pavilions that are linked together by a glass curtain skybridge, with a series of skylights operated by a multi-layer daylight control system. Additional portals serve as curated "lenses" through which the landscaped connection provided by Reed Hilderbrand can be assessed by the museum's 70,000 anticipated yearly visitors.
Overall costs for the project have grown to $85 million since its first announcement in 2019. The firm was also recently commissioned for the Vero Beach Museum of Art expansion and will pursue an unspecified LEED certification for the Palmer Museum building. The final product is expected in early 2024.
Credit: Brooklyn Foundry, via Allied Works on Vimeo.
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I remember the opening of the last renovation with Charlie Moore in attendance. I brazenly walked up and introduced myself to him and got a personal guided tour of the project by him. Although, the previous renovation didn't do much in terms of making great space for modern art, but it did do a job of providing scalar jumps and juxtaposition to highlight the eclectic collection and with its post-modern entry it attempted to connect to the pedestrian walkways of campus and create a space. The scheme presented by Allied Works looks like a very nice modern art museum, with great framed views of nature with a luxurious parking lot front and center...which is a bit of a shame. It is expansion renovation that rewrites everything and subsumes it under a cloak of serene sameness. Like muzak of old, the project walkthrough takes a tune and strips it of its uniqueness to present a mindlessly unified experience.
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