BSLA / HONOR AWARD
Commercial and Institutional Design
Reed Hilderbrand
A Cultural Common : The Clark Art Institute Williamstown , Massachusetts
Spanning fourteen years and three phases of construction , our renewal of the Clark Art Institute campus expands public access to its unique landscape , brings new significance to its natural and cultural resources , and enriches the Clark ’ s capacity to realize its educational mission . It is a project of simple materials and broad forms that draw from and intensify the Clark ’ s deeply beloved rural setting . Building within and upon the larger regional patterns of hydrology and topography , the strongly figured landscape unites disparate architectural works into a singular campus . Asserting strong functional and visual criteria , we built an intensively engineered landscape of integrated soils , water , and vegetative systems that improves native woodland and stream corridor conditions , reduces resource demands , and expands the Clark ’ s understanding of its own commitment to landscape stewardship .
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