项目名称：Jean & Ric Edelman化石公园与博物馆

地点：新泽西州曼图阿镇，美国

设计团队：Ennead Architects

建筑面积：44000 ft²

完成时间：2025

摄影：Brett Beyer

设计特色：

项目 - 作为一个前沿性的可持续设计典范，建筑工作室Ennead Architects打造了Jean & Ric Edelman化石公园与博物馆——一座碳净零排放的建筑，将前采石场改造为沉浸式古生物学探索中心。这座44000平方英尺的建筑代表了可持续建筑领域的重大突破，被认为是新泽西州最大的公共碳净零排放建筑之一。

曼图阿镇的这一地标性项目展示了设计的核心创新：独特的"透镜"形木材包裹体量，每个矩形体量向内收缩形成中央窗口，创造出设计师所称的"穿越时空的窗口"——这是Ennead设计理念的标志性表达。策略性地位于两个采石坑之间的高地上，建筑以尊重的姿态融入场地，北侧为双层结构，而面向挖掘区的一侧则降为单层。

材料选择在这个项目中扮演着关键角色，采用了胶合木、混凝土和钢材的混合结构系统，不仅为了可持续性考量，更是为了强化建筑的表现力。大面积的玻璃元素经过精心定位，以控制太阳能获取，同时在室内外之间创造视觉连接，框住周围65英亩化石公园的自然景观。

使Edelman化石公园与博物馆区别于传统博物馆的是其全面的可持续性方法。遵循能源认证标准，项目采用全电力机械系统和地热井，确保建筑保持零碳足迹，而东西向的建筑朝向则最大限度地提高了能源效率。

Ennead设计团队创造了一个多功能空间，包括沉浸式展览厅、138座剧院、VR工作室、保护区和咖啡厅。展览设计由G&A工作室完成，带领访客穿越晚白垩纪时期，通过真实大小的恐龙模型和交互式展品，将远古灭绝事件与当代气候挑战联系起来。

Edelman化石公园与博物馆成为当代建筑实践的重要贡献——一个融合科学探索、建筑创新和环境管理的项目，证明可持续设计不必牺牲建筑表现力和用户体验。

团队 - Ennead Architects是一家国际知名的建筑事务所，总部位于纽约市，在洛杉矶和上海设有办事处，在南佛罗里达也有业务。拥有超过59年的历史，该事务所由十位合伙人共同领导。

作为一家拥有200多名专业人员的公司，Ennead Architects因其规划和设计卓越性而享誉国际，其多元化的作品组合包括新建筑、翻新和扩建、历史保护、室内设计和总体规划，以及为公共和私人机构及政府机构提供的前期设计咨询服务和专业建议。

Ennead创造强大而动态的设计，推进新范式，强化机构身份，建立场所感，促进共享体验，提高用户表现并改善现有条件。事务所的协作过程建立在广泛的研究基础上，包括对环境的分析、公共形象、新兴技术和对可持续解决方案的承诺。

自1963年成立以来，塑造公共领域一直是Ennead实践的核心。他们因其作品的形式和情感力量、技术精湛、可持续设计、对社区文化生活的重大贡献以及对物理环境的提升而备受赞誉。Ennead致力于综合建筑解决方案的变革性发展，并与项目团队合作，将固有挑战视为增强与自然和社会环境重要联系的机会。

Project Name: Jean & Ric Edelman Fossil Park & Museum

Location: Mantua Township, New Jersey, United States

Design Team: Ennead Architects

Total Floor Area: 44,000 ft²

Completion: 2025

Photography: Brett Beyer

Feature:

Project - As a pioneering example of sustainable design excellence, architecture studio Ennead Architects has created the Jean & Ric Edelman Fossil Park & Museum — a carbon net-zero facility that transforms a former quarry into an immersive paleontological center. The 44,000-square-foot structure represents a significant advancement in sustainable architecture, recognized as one of New Jersey's largest public net-zero carbon emissions buildings.

The landmark Mantua Township installation showcases the concept's core innovation: distinctive "lens" timber-clad volumes, each rectangular form tapering inward to create central windows, establishing what the designers call "windows through deep time" — a signature expression of Ennead's design philosophy. Strategically positioned on an elevated ridge between two quarry pits, the building integrates respectfully with the site, featuring two storeys on the north side while reducing to a single storey facing the dig area.

Materiality plays a crucial role in the project, with a hybrid structural system of glulam timber, concrete, and steel selected not merely for sustainability credentials but to enhance the building's expressiveness. The generous glazed elements are carefully positioned to control solar gain while creating visual connections between interior and exterior, framing the surrounding 65-acre fossil park landscape.

What distinguishes the Edelman Fossil Park & Museum from conventional museums is its comprehensive approach to sustainability. Following the Energy Petal Certification of the Living Building Challenge, the project employs all-electric mechanical systems and geothermal wells to ensure the building maintains a zero-carbon footprint, while its east-west orientation maximizes energy efficiency.

Ennead's design team has created a multifunctional space encompassing immersive exhibition galleries, a 138-seat theater, VR studio, conservation area, and café. Exhibition design by G&A studios guides visitors through the Late Cretaceous Period through life-sized dinosaur models and interactive exhibits that connect ancient extinction events to contemporary climate challenges.

The Edelman Fossil Park & Museum emerges as a significant contribution to contemporary architectural practice — a project that merges scientific discovery, architectural innovation, and environmental stewardship, proving that sustainable design need not compromise architectural expression and user experience.

Design Team - Ennead Architects is an internationally-acclaimed practice based in New York City with offices in Los Angeles and Shanghai, and a presence in South Florida. With over 59 years of history, the firm is led by ten partners: Grace Chen, Stephen Chu, V. Guy Maxwell, Kevin McClurkan, Molly McGowan, Richard Olcott, Tomas Rossant, Peter Schubert, David Tepper and Thomas Wong.

As a 200+ person company, Ennead Architects is internationally recognized for planning and design excellence, with a diverse portfolio including new construction, renovation and expansion, historic preservation, interior design and master planning, as well as pre-design advisory services and professional counsel to public and private institutions and government agencies.

Ennead creates powerful and dynamic designs that advance new paradigms, reinforce institutional identity, establish a sense of place, facilitate shared experiences, enhance user performance and improve existing conditions. The firm's collaborative process is based in extensive research involving the analysis of context, public image, emerging technologies and a commitment to sustainable solutions.

Since its founding in 1963, shaping the public realm has been central to Ennead's practice. They have been acclaimed for the formal and affective power of their work, for technical virtuosity, for sustainable design, for significant contributions to the cultural life of communities and the enhancement of physical contexts. Ennead is committed to the transformative development of integrated architectural solutions and, in partnership with project teams, approaches inherent challenges as opportunities to enhance vital connections to natural and social environments.