Rendering Credits: Davis Partnership
We won a competition to design the new Center for Science, Art and Education at the Denver Botanic Garden. The project will serve as a museum for botanic art and science, holding 50k sf of space plus two new levels of underground parking. The structure will include art studios and classrooms, galleries, an auditorium, a library including a rare books room, laboratories for research as well as conservation of botanic samples, an herbarium for preserved plant collections, and office space. Additionally , the project includes the remodel of the historic Boettcher Center designed by the late Victor Hornbein and complete in 1966.
The design challenge was to create a building that was at once expressive of the program, welcoming to visitors, and yet humble in its relationship to the existing campus. This is the only building on campus accessible to the public without requiring tickets to tour the Gardens, and such it will play an important role in increasing the public's access to the arts and education programs of the Gardens.
