Jones Beach Energy & Nature Center — Jones Beach Energy & Nature Center
The Jones Beach Energy & Nature Center, a mass-timber visitor and educational building at Jones Beach State Park in Wantagh, New York, opened in 2020, designed by nARCHITECTS with exhibition and graphic design by Tactile and AJA Architecture and Planning; it teaches coastal sea-level-rise resilience alongside its own sustainable design.
| Venue | Jones Beach Energy & Nature Center |
|---|---|
| Project type | New Building |
| Status | Completed |
| Year completed | 2020 |
| Technologies | interpretive graphics |
Credits
| Firm | Role | Note |
|---|---|---|
| narchitects | Architecture | |
| tactile | Exhibit Design | Graphic design and co-exhibition designer |
| tactile | Environmental Graphics & Wayfinding | |
| aja-architects | Exhibit Design | Co-exhibition designer (AJA Architecture and Planning) |
Description
Winner of the Spaces and Places category in Fast Company's 2024 Innovation by Design Awards. Landscape architecture by Starr Whitehouse is not captured as a project credit — the vocabulary has no landscape-architecture role (logged gap).