AZ Sonora Desert Museum - Tucson, Arizona (1994-2000)

 

MAIN ENTRANCE

 

New main entrance design including visitor arrival/drop-off area, entrance plaza, lizard exhibit, handicapped accessibility, ticket windows, business office and ramada.

 

Contractor:  Eric Means

Status: completed 1994 (in association with Arthur Perkins, Architect)

 

INTERPRETIVE HALL/MIXED SPECIES

 

Underground exhibit hall utilizing earth formed thin-shell concrete construction for a 45' by 90' clear span.  A covered pedestrian path through exhibits containing venomous snakes and lizards, bats, Harris antelopes and ground squirrels, and a simulated desert spring.

 

Tom Sacra, Structural Engineer. 

 

Status: Completed 1996/2000