Storm King Art Center’s first major capital project, led by Heneghan Peng Architects and WXY architecture + urban design, enhances arrival, expands outdoor exhibition space, and introduces a facility dedicated to conservation and fabrication. A rethought arrival sequence gathers all visitors from shuttles, buses, rideshare, and passenger cars into a consolidated entry point. A series of discrete pavilions support the arrival experience while intentionally being designed and sited to remain secondary to the land and art. Collectively called the Welcome Pavilions, the arrival buildings’ material language of thermally modified wood cladding and native-stone-embed concrete is designed to weather naturally over time and blur the boundary between indoor and outdoor. By consolidating parking at the edge of the site, the project eliminates vehicles within the Art Center and reclaims five acres of former parking lots to be used for sculpture and landscape. The newly built Conservation, Fabrication, and Maintenance facility, the first of its kind at Storm King, supports large-scale art conservation, material experimentation, ecological research, and in-house fabrication. More than a workspace, the facility bolsters Storm King’s leadership in art and landscape conservation by expanding the capabilities able to be performed on site, reducing the amount of outsourced work.
