alabama astrobleme center

Following the discovery of the Wetumpka Crater, one of the world’s best preserved oceanic impact craters, an request for proposals was circulated for the Impact Crater and Science Center. In this submission, the architecture of the museum itself recounts the story of the meteor’s impact. The harsh, angular building seems alien to the heavily wooded landscape. Its travertine façade appears neatly fractured into large rectangular slabs. The path along occupiable roof—one of three distinct programmatic sequences—gives visitors sweeping views of the ancient floodplain before turning abruptly and culminating in a blade-like edge that gestures toward the point of impact.