Wood’s Hole Museum & Archive

Pencil & Ink Perspective, Upper Level Library

Wood's Hole Museum & Archive, Library & Archive

Pencil & Ink Perspective, Suspended Archive

Wood's Hole Museum & Archive, Final Model, Exterior Archive

Wood's Hole Museum & Archive, Campus Model

Wood's Hole Museum & Archive, Library, Archive, Museum, & Bradley House

Pencil & Ink Perspective, Bridge Across Archive

Wood's Hole Museum & Archive, Final Model, Archive

Wood's Hole Museum & Archive Site Plan, Wood's Hole, MA

Wood's Hole Museum & Archive, South Elevation

Wood's Hole Museum & Archive, East Elevation

Wood's Hole Museum & Archive, Archive & Library Ground Floor

Wood's Hole Museum & Archive, Library Level

Wood's Hole Museum & Archive, Museum, Library, & Archive Section

Wood's Hole Library, Wood's Hole, MA

Wood's Hole Museum & Archive, Archive at Night

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PROGRAM

“Two historic structures sit as neighbors and civic sisters, one a library and the other a museum. Together they form an intellectual repository of Woods Hole, Massachusetts, a town with a long fishing, industrial, and research history.” The project called for an addition to the museum that would physically connect with the library, provide exhibition space, new archives, and offices.

RESPONSE

The existing buildings had an old New England scheme, with rambling structures that were placed haphazardly on site. There was a stone library with a 1980’s rear addition, barn, historic Bradley House, and the Yale Workshop. An important focal point became the archive and its role in the community. I developed the archive as something that is separate and valuable, contained and suspended within the library itself and hovering above the exhibition space. The tension between accessibility and visibility of an archive was at the core of this project.