This museum + science park, designed to address community, culture, and sustainability, was achieved in collaboration with Estudio Teddy Cruz + Fonna Forman and Spurlock Landscape Architects. The proposal leverages El Paso’s distinctive, mountainous, desert location and binational identity as a jumping-off point for learning.

Reframing a downtown block provides a learning landscape that extends across the site.

Visible sustainability launches opportunities to discover how natural sciences and technology can help the planet. The park setting attracts both ticketed visitors and the public at large, encouraging exploration.

STATUS
Competition Finalist

LOCATION
El Paso, Texas

CLIENT
El Paso Community Foundation

TEAM
Estudio Teddy Cruz + Fonna Forman
Spurlock Landscape Architects
Buro Happold Engineering

PROGRAM
93,000 SF Exhibit + Support Space; 33,000 SF Outdoor Public Space

AWARDS + RECOGNITION
2018 World Architecture Festival Shortlist

PRESS
Architect’s Newspaper

SEE ALSO
Cultural/Civic
Educational
Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh
MuseumLAB
Pico Branch Library
The Thinkery
University of Melbourne Student Precinct
John Adams Middle School