NPP- COnceptual design

NPP- COnceptual design

1. visitor feeling

   • curious
   • dioriented
   • excited
   • memories of previous visits

2. environment

   • pavement parking lot
   • other visitores
   • view of nature beyond pavement
     • gardens
     • trails
     • abbe museum
     • picnic lawn
     • Nautre Center transition zone from civilizaiton to nature and park
       • Motto
         • Natural Transformation
         • land of history and change
         • Acadia: Our ever changing home
         • Diverse from sea to summit
         • Discovery and Integrigty of Acadia National Park
       • Entrance: Enter into Acadia National Park
         • orient
         • prepare/reveal possible experience
         • make aware of science and nature currently occuring in park when visit place displayed first hand
         • MOuntains
           • glacial valley- glacial display- historic shaping and what to looks for
             • bubbles and jordan pond
           • story of falcon
           • volcanic history- rock id and story
           • erosion to beachs
           • important plant life to be careful of- avoid the shrub game
           • yellow warbler
         • ocean drive
           • Acadia Achipeligp
             • seabird research migration and breeding patterns
               • story of researchers- students and researchers
             • change in vegetation and coastlines
             • sea gull calls
           • coastline distubance
             • storm surges
               • photographic record of geological impact of major coastal storms
             • thunderhole
           • beaches
             • shaped by wave action and disturbance
               • different beaches and related rocks
             • ocean acidity
               • interactive shells
           • saecave
             • walk in sea cave
               • water table tidal pool
               • sea level rise simulation
               • sounds
           • change in Gulf of Maine currents and chemistry
           • bird calls
         • old fields agriculture developed areas
           • relate visitor to home and changes occuring
           • story of a developed area in park
           • local warming and sea effects
           • microcosom of urban heat island effect
         • walk through forest
           • tree id
             • change in leaf out time simulation
           • birds
           • deer/coyote research
           • match plant with pollinator
           • pine forests
         • estuary
           • biog
             • freshwater
               • freeze time
               • tree id
                 • change in water chemistry b/c boreal to decisuous
               • salt water intrusion
             • cranberry picking
             • amphibian vernal pool
           • transition zone between b/w fresh water and ocean: subject to tides and rivers
           • bird sights
           • critter match
       • Exit: Explore the Park
         • use knowledege learned to observe areas first hand
           • scavenger hunts
           • drawings or pictures
           • bird sighting
         • provide some way for visitor to experience park and then come back to compare results with current studies
         • ACADIA NOW

3. walk toward direction posts

   • draw people into nature center
     • sign
     • path
     • light inside

4. walk directly toward gardens or trails

5. Walk directly to Nature Center