MUSEUM PARK PUMP STATION

Miami, FL

The existing pump station operated by Miami-Dade Water and Sewer Department currently resides on Biscayne Boulevard and the southwest corner of Museum Park, home to the Frost Science Museum and the Perez Art Museum. The building, originally constructed in 1951, consists of a flat concrete windowless box -like design. The county requested the rethinking of a new envelope to in essence “wrap” the existing structure cosmetically, symbolically and functionally. In addition, the landscape around the station could be woven in and around the envelope.