Arts
Owner: Experience Music Project/Vulcan Northwest
Client/Architect: Frank O. Gehry Architects and LMN Architects
Completion: 2000
This new interactive museum and performance facility at Seattle Center offered a wealth of challenges over the project's five-year development. Spaces include a variety of traditional exhibit areas, hands-on technology, educational programs, a 200-seat auditorium and live performance areas, as well as classrooms, a public gathering space, cafe, restaurant and store. The galleries, performance spaces and the multimedia areas placed special demands for optimum flexibility in heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems. The environmental control system quickly detects thermal differences in each space and changes in temperature and ventilation are automatically accommodated based on occupant activities. Mechanical systems such as air intakes and exhausts have minimal visual impact on the unique architectural features of the building.
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NEWS: Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce, Special Edition on Experience Music Project, June 15, 2000.
