CREC Museum Academy
Museum Academy represents a true melding of architecture and program: a facility designed to support a unique educational pedagogy. Here, students develop their curiosity about the world through visual arts, living museums, performances, and exhibitions. The PreK-5th grade students must learn to present their work in a “museum-like” manner via visual arts, music, and dance.
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The Academy’s unique spaces emulate a professional museum, showcasing student exhibits within a creative, hands-on, themed learning environment. Corridors and classroom entrances function as galleries, displaying student work. The gymnasium doubles as a performance venue with theater lighting and stage. The building’s focal point is the second-floor suite of studios and an impressive, airy gallery featuring floor-to-ceiling windows, skylights, LED lighting, and video art monitors.
CREC Academy Museum is a high-performance building with chilled beam cooling, in-floor radiant heat, solar photovoltaic roof.
CLIENT
CREC
LOCATION
Bloomfield, Connecticut
YEAR COMPLETED
2017
SIZE
75,660 SF
COST
$55,300,000
QA+M Architecture is a full-service architectural firm that provides programming, planning and interior design for clients in Commercial, community, education, healthcare, historical, housing, and recreational/athletic markets. Staffed by 33 dedicated professionals, including 18 licensed architects, the firm has grown into one of the 10 largest architectural firms in Connecticut.
ADDRESS
195 Scott Swamp Rd, Farmington, CT 06032
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