Designing experience through architecture and environment:
Eli Whitney Museum
A museum that explores historical and current relationships between nature and human industry.
Yale College // Senior Fall Studio
Turner Brooks and Adam Hopfner // instructors
This new expansion to the Eli Whitney Museum, located Hamden CT, explores historical and current relationships between nature and human industry.
The 3200 SF teaching facility comprises three distinct spaces: a greenhouse, soil study room and exhibition area. The expansion building organizes this tripartite program into two discrete but interwoven components, a vertically stacked greenhouse and soil study room, embedded in a landform mass containing the exhibition space.
Oriented along the Mill River to face the Lake Whitney Dam, the entire building shapes access and awareness of this dynamic site feature, while respecting the existing bridge and museum. Positioned at the center, the greenhouse volume both draws in and radiates out light, giving the Eli Whitney Museum a signature feature.
