PROJECT OVERVIEW

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Architects: Snow Kreilich Architects

Location: Van Buren, ME, USA

Architect In Charge: Snow Kreilich

Design Team: Meyer Borgman and Johnson, Structural

Area: 46000.0 ft2

Project Year: 2013

Photographs: Paul Crosby, Paul Cyr, Paul Warchol

Mep: Jacobs Engineering

Civil: Coen+Partners, Landscape

Architect Of Record: Robert Siegel Architects

Builder: J & J Contractors, Inc.

Structural Engineer: Anastos Engineering Associates

Civil And Mep : Engineer: Arup.

Landscape Architect: Sasaki Associates

Life Safety Consultant: Fire Risk
Leed Consultant: Winter Associates

© Paul Crosby

PROJECT OVERVIEWThe design of the new US Land Port of Entry in Van Buren, Maine fuses an abstraction of the cultural and landscape context with concepts essential to port operations: surveillance and camouflage. Located in the St. John River valley, an area profoundly influenced by its roots in the Acadian culture, this heritage is made visible in Van Buren?s original town plat of long narrow plots oriented toward the river. Forests still cover much of the area and provide another layer to the genesis of the design. As the repetition of trees in a forest provides c...