Gulf Coast Museum of Art, Florida Botanical Garden
Pinellas County, Largo, Florida
The Gulf Coast Museum of Art is part of a multi-institutional cultural complex that includes the Florida Botanical Garden, The Pinellas Historical Museum, and Heritage Village, an open-air assembly of "cracker" architecture. The multi-building museum is sited at the south-east corner of the 60-acre botanical gardens, which are woven into the campus design. The flood-plane site is east of a waterway and Heritage Village. The 45,000-square-foot museum blends flexible space for a growing regional art collection, studio workshops and classrooms for a community arts-education program, and administrative offices. The project is organized around two public circulation elements: a sinuous colonnade running alongside the waterway, offering a sheltered promenade with views into the gardens; and a footbridge that connects the museum to Heritage Village. The public center of the complex--with an auditorium, library, café, sculpture garden, galleries and the museum store--is at the intersection of these two paths. Light monitors give the roof distinctive form and effectively diffuse the strong sunlight into usable ambient light. The interior glows with natural light from above; gallery walls are also punctuated by small windows that reconnect visitors to the landscape.
Please see our Flash website at www.charlesrosearchitects.com for a more complete representation of this project.
Pinellas County, Largo, Florida
The Gulf Coast Museum of Art is part of a multi-institutional cultural complex that includes the Florida Botanical Garden, The Pinellas Historical Museum, and Heritage Village, an open-air assembly of "cracker" architecture. The multi-building museum is sited at the south-east corner of the 60-acre botanical gardens, which are woven into the campus design. The flood-plane site is east of a waterway and Heritage Village. The 45,000-square-foot museum blends flexible space for a growing regional art collection, studio workshops and classrooms for a community arts-education program, and administrative offices. The project is organized around two public circulation elements: a sinuous colonnade running alongside the waterway, offering a sheltered promenade with views into the gardens; and a footbridge that connects the museum to Heritage Village. The public center of the complex--with an auditorium, library, café, sculpture garden, galleries and the museum store--is at the intersection of these two paths. Light monitors give the roof distinctive form and effectively diffuse the strong sunlight into usable ambient light. The interior glows with natural light from above; gallery walls are also punctuated by small windows that reconnect visitors to the landscape.
Please see our Flash website at www.charlesrosearchitects.com for a more complete representation of this project.
