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VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE (VIMS) - RESEARCH AND EDUCATION CENTER
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Virginia Institute of Marine Science
Wachapreague, VA Waterfront/Education |
The Virginia Institute of Marine Science’s Wachapreague Campus is comprised of five acres spread over several parcels and separated by public roads. There are many older buildings on the campus which are beyond their useful life and have been programmed for demolition and replacement. The new buildings, created in the master plan study, are designed to live with the water on the site in storm events and mitigate the risk of damage.
VIA design architects, pc has already completed a new 8,000 SF “contingent flood proof” design of the VIMS Eastern Shore Seawater Testing Laboratory located on the water’s edge; it was constructed in the VE-11+12 coastal flood plain zone of this property. VIA design architects, pc also completed a new “permanent flood proof” 3,100 SF classroom and laboratory, named Seaside Hall, immediately across the street.
It is the Virginia Institute of Marine Science’s intent to hire VIA design architects, pc in the near future to design two more buildings that will complete their Research and Education Center Campus. We were commissioned to provide “visioning” renderings of how these two new buildings could be positioned on the property, and how they might co-exist in appearance with the previously completed VIA design projects and the town of Wachapreague.
VIA design architects, pc has already completed a new 8,000 SF “contingent flood proof” design of the VIMS Eastern Shore Seawater Testing Laboratory located on the water’s edge; it was constructed in the VE-11+12 coastal flood plain zone of this property. VIA design architects, pc also completed a new “permanent flood proof” 3,100 SF classroom and laboratory, named Seaside Hall, immediately across the street.
It is the Virginia Institute of Marine Science’s intent to hire VIA design architects, pc in the near future to design two more buildings that will complete their Research and Education Center Campus. We were commissioned to provide “visioning” renderings of how these two new buildings could be positioned on the property, and how they might co-exist in appearance with the previously completed VIA design projects and the town of Wachapreague.
"It is our intention to hire VIA again in the near future to design two more buildings that will complete our research and education facilities and provide the ESL with a very visually pleasing and highly functional campus that will greatly enhance our capacity to meet the research, education, and advisory missions of VIMS."
- Mark Luckenbach
Assoc. Dean for Research and Advisory Services