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Project Features
Archival Storage,
Exhibits, Seminar and Symposium Space, Specialty Lighting
Services Provided
Electrical
Mechanical
Plumbing
Technology
Size:
6000 sf
For many years, artifacts, mementos, tapes and other materials
belonging to State of Mainers who survived or helped to liberate
the concentrations camps of the World War II era, were scattered
about the state in various locations including a private home. A
new 6,000 sf education and resource center has recently been built
at the University of Maine Augusta. The new center was built
with the help of the Holocaust Human Rights Center of Maine and
thanks to a generous donation by Michael Klahr who survived the
holocaust as a child. In the new center, which is attached to the
University library, researchers will find a rich archive of reference
material. In the Klahr Center, seminars and symposiums will focus
on the topics of diversity, medical ethics and the Holocaust.
Syska Hennessy Group and Shepley Bulfinch Richardson and Abbott
won an international competition of 120 entries for their design
concept for the new Klahr Center. Their design is based on a flower
with its petals opening and reaching upward, a symbol of life and
renewal. The architects, Hon and Wooten, said in their design proposal, "they
sought to project the center's mission to hold and direct light.
Dispelling the darkness that troubles the human spirit, the Center's
glassy petals shine forth, creating a light-filled meditative and
educational space." Syska engineers helped design the
specialty lighting for the classrooms as well as the exhibits. In
addition, Syska engineers provided MEP/FP and partial tel/data for
the resource center's new systems as well as the interconnection
between these new systems and the school's existing systems.
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