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The Huntsville Museum of Art has embarked upon an $11 million project to add additional galleries, an auditorium, an outdoor stage, and more parking to its museum. Garver produced a detailed topography survey and civil site design to move the expansion from its conceptual stages toward its grand opening.
One of the features for the proposed expansion is a new parking area. Due to the proximity of an existing loading dock turnout to a major downtown street intersection, safety considerations and traffic design criteria required consideration of a second turnout west of the intersection. The result utilizes the existing turnout to serve the loading dock and dumpster pad, and a new driveway turnout dedicated to the vehicles that will access the proposed off-street parking lot. The parking lot will add another 64 spaces for museum patrons, offering safer and more convenient parking.
Garver redesigned the stormwater routing system through and away from the property. An existing concrete pipe carries stormwater from the loading dock to a nearby pond, but because the pipe is located under the proposed addition, it has to be relocated. Garver designed a system that avoided several potential conflicts with other utilities by adjusting the pipe grades and selecting different configurations and sizes for the pipes. |
