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Exploration Place
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 Exploration Place is located near downtown Wichita at the point of confluence of the Arkansas River and its tributary, the Little Arkansas. With a mission to provide scientific and humanistic education meaningful to people of all ages, the center organizes interpenetrating elements of the continuous river’s edge, public park and museum.
 Visitors enter through a vaulted pavilion holding the gift shop, cafeteria, Cyberdome, Simulation Theatre and curatorial wing, and cross a channel to the exhibition pavilion, surrounded by water and dedicated to the human experience on earth. The building’s diverse exterior and interior geometries are created by the intersection of the undulating walls and the surfaces of two giant toroids. The “island” exhibition building is generated by a toroid whose center is high in the sky, forming a series of concave roofs, facing skywards, like a giant receptor dish or observatory. The “land” building toroid has its center deep underground, creating vault-like roofs descending into the earth.
Radiating glue laminate beams, acting in tension in the island building and in compression in the land building, have spans as long as 56 feet and, because of their toroidal geometry, all have a constant radius. The gallery interiors ascend from 16 feet at the central spine to upwards of 70 feet. Installations take advantage of these volumes, which provide for multi-leveled displays. The entire complex is dramatically lit at night, appearing in the city’s skyline as floating, twisted plane reflected in the river. |
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| Continente |
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America del Nord |
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| Nazione |
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 Stati Uniti [United States] |
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 Kansas |
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Sedgwick |
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 Wichita |
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300 N. McLean Blvd.
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| Telefono |
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| Sito web |
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TIPOLOGIA |
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Principale |
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ARCHITETTURA | Edifici per attivita' culturali
Gallerie d'arte e spazi espositivi
Sale conferenze
Edifici per l'insegnamento
Musei per bambini e spazi pedagogici
Altri centri per l'insegnamento
Edifici per attività ricreative
Teatri
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Accessoria |
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ARCHITETTURA | Edifici commerciali
Negozi
Bar, caffetterie
Edifici per attività ricreative
Auditorium e centri per la musica
Edifici e strutture per i trasporti
Autorimesse, parcheggi, ecc.
Arredo urbano e strutture per spazi pubblici
Strutture per spazi pubblici
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ARCHITETTURA DEL PAESAGGIO ED AMBIENTI NATURALI | Architettura del paesaggio
Giardini privati
Parchi giochi per bambini
Lungomare, fronti sull'acqua
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Progetto |
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| Jacopo della Fontana, "Forme libere/In Wichita", L'Arca 155, gennaio/january 2001 [Mostrare e mostrarsi/To show and to be shown], pp. 36-39 |
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| Exploration Place, Inc., Wichita (President: Al DeSena, Charman of Board: Phil Frick) |
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Ove Arup & Partners, Los Angeles (design)
Dudley Williams & Associates |
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ARCHITETTURA DEL PAESAGGIO |
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| Moshe Safdie and Associates |
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Schaefer Johnson Cox Frey and Associates
Sam Frey, Joe Johnson, Erik Lindebak, Vern Miller |
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| Tony D. Pace, Chris Goad, Rainer Goeller, Paul Gross, Michael Guran, Amnon Haviv, Martin Ibarlucia, Peter Jelley, Jeff Jacoby, Ravit Kaplan, Michael Kim, Wendy Kohn, Michael Mac Phail, Philip Matthew, Hugh Philips, Sarah Radding, Bram Radding, Tazalika Te Reh, Steven White, Frank Valdes |
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| Ove Arup & Partners, Los Angeles (progetto) |
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| Impianti meccanici |
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| Impianti idraulici |
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| Impianti elettrici |
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| Stefan Voegeli & Associates |
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| Ingegneria civile |
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| Mid-Kansas Engineering Consultants |
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| Geologo |
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| Terracon Consultants, Inc. |
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| Illuminotecnica |
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| Systems Design Associates, Inc. |
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| Grafica e segnaletica |
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| Acustica |
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| Consulente teatrale |
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| Installazioni artistiche e multimediali |
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| Evans & Sutherland (CyberDome Theater) |
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| Progetto museografico |
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| Progetto degli spazi espositivi |
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Leathers and Associates (spazio giochi)
Balck River Design (punto vendita) |
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| Pianificazione e organizzazione |
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| Consulente coperture |
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| Simpson, Gumpertz & Heger |
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| Controllo costi |
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| Vermeulens Inc., James F. Vermeulens |
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| Appaltatore |
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| Dondlinger & Sons Construction |
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| Costruttore |
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| Martin K. Eby Construction Co., Inc. |
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CREDITS |
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Photos © Moshe Safdie and Associates
Text edited by Moshe Safdie and Associates
Courtesy by Moshe Safdie and Associates
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