Science Center of Tech Valley

Re4orm Architecture is in the process of providing design services for a LEED certified Science Center of Tech Valley - a dynamic, experiential visitor destination – which will replace the existing outdated Schenectady Museum & Suits-Bueche Planetarium. The new entity will be a hybrid - the intellectual offspring of a traditional collections-based museum and an activity-based science and technology center. The exhibits and activities will reflect the continuum of science and technology in a rich historical context that reaches into the future.

The preliminary design features a soaring, illuminated double-height lobby as the main architectural statement of the façade facing Broadway. The lobby will provide direct access to the multipurpose Planetarium/Domed Immersion Theater, large-format digital theater, Tech Theater, the information and ticketing area, museum shop, large traveling exhibit space, and the Living Lab. Twenty-foot-high ceilings will allow for the creation and rental of immersive, hands-on technologically advanced museum exhibit designs.

Currently fundraising is in progress and once the majority of capital is in place then NYSERDA will be contacted to provided assistance in identifying the best energy-efficient measures that can be implemented into the design of the building. The estimated cost of this project: $72,000,000.