Sustainable / eco-friendly weather museum and research lab. Program included two office spaces, meeting rooms, wind
simulator rooms, coffee house, threwe showrooms, reception, museum store and a lecture hall.
Focus group was children ages 5-16 and senior citizens. Weather was a focus point and used form of building to capture snow inside courtyard so museum guests could see behind glass layers of snow. Form and daylight used in a way where building served as a solar watch for staff. Use of materials made structure low in maintenance and easy to take apart, one concrete wall that served as a load bearing wall for timber frame structure. Thermo-heated wood cladding, turf roof and a fiber cloth, polyethylene roof membrane for work spaces so that filtered daylight could be used.
