Object Projects
Led by partners Sarah Hirschman¹ and Ann Worth,² Object Projects is a California-based architecture studio focused on strengthening social infrastructure³ through design.
Led by partners Sarah Hirschman¹ and Ann Worth,² Object Projects is a California-based architecture studio focused on strengthening social infrastructure³ through design.
Nature Center
Buena Vista Audubon Society
Buena Vista Lagoon, CA3,700 sf (Phase 1)
2024
This project sought a phased approach to a wholesale renewal of a bustling Nature Center in Oceanside. The Nature Center holds an exquisite collection of taxidermy, bones, eggs, insects, and fossils from the nearby Buena Vista Lagoon, yet it sits marooned on an asphalt island, lacking connection to the landscape. The project proposes incremental improvements to reposition the Center as a front door to the lagoon. The first phase is modest, removing defunct infrastructure, reorganizing existing exhibitions, and swapping paint colors. Later phases open specimen cases and reorient visitors towards the landscape.
Future interventions, previewed during Phase One, embrace the Nature Center’s position as the “Front Door to the Lagoon” redirecting views from the building out to the surrounding landscape with the insertion of large doors and windows, as well as library and gallery renovations.