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Fisher Pavillion

Photo by Miller|Hull Partnership.


Facts

  • Project Name: Fisher Pavillion
  • Purpose: to provide space for festival users and to provide vistas toward the International Fountain from the Children's Theater
  • Year Built: 2002
  • Address: 305 Harrison Street
  • Client: Seattle Center
  • Designer: Miller|Hull Partnership
  • Cost: $xxxxxxxxx
  • Size:
  • LEED Certification: Silver
  • Awards:
    • 2003 National AIA Top Ten Green Award
    • 2003 Sustainable Building B.E.S.T Award
    • 2003 AIA Washington Council Civic Design Honor Award
    • 2002 AIA Seattle Merit Award
    • 2001 AIA Seattle Citation Award
  • Design Commission Reviews:
    • briefing (November 11, 1996)
    • pre design (December 5, 1996)
    • pre design (September 4, 1997)
    • schematic design (January 20, 2000)
    • design development (December 21, 2000)
    • design development (January 21, 2001)

Design Commission's Influence
The Design Commission believed the development of the Fisher Pavillion provided the Seattle Center an opportunity to replace the outmoded Flag Pavillion and Plaza with a subterranean structure that would add to the green space surrounding the International Fountain, the heart of the Center.

The Design Commission made several recommendations to the Seattle Center and its design team:

 


Landscaped setting.

photo by Miller|Hull Partnerhship

Overall Concept and Direction

  • frame the solution as more of a landscape scheme than an architectural scheme
  • focus on integrating the spaces
  • make the facilitiy accessible to people of all abilities
  • hire an artist to work on areas like the light wells
  • spend 1% of the capital budget for the project's arts improvements
  • pursue a comprehensive landscaping plan for the Seattle Center campus




Green lawn.

photo by Miller|Hull Partnerhship



Site Planning

  • place a portion of the building below grade and reclaim the surface as open green space
  • find a more purposeful integration of the plaza into the Seattle Center and the surrounding area by exploring the tension between the symmetry and assymtery of the proposed site plan
  • study the horticultural legacy of the site and reinforce it through the site plan where appropriate
  • mark with a point of general interest the direct, geometric relationship of the central axes of the lower plaza and the International Fountain
  • study in more depth the southeast and southwest corners of the site to guide future design decisions
  • switch the asymmetrical arrangement of the new lower plaza to a more symmetrical and direct geometrical relationship to the International Fountain




Overlook to lawn and International Fountain.

photo by Miller|Hull Partnerhship



Design Refinements

  • design the roof to act as a belvedre to the International Fountain
  • use plain finished concrete rather than painted concrete
  • design the restroom structures as two small buildings separate from the main building and have them function as beacons
  • develop the skylights as functional light wells that provide access to the International Fountain and Children's Theater

See other projects in the Visual Resume.

Last Updated: September 17, 2005