Springsong Museum - Silverspring, MD
The scope of work for this project was renovations and addition to the current Burnt Mills East Special Park facility located in Silver Spring, Maryland, which is on the National Register of Historic Places. Because of that, the project had to obtain approvals from The Maryland National Capital Park and Planning Commission (M-NCPPC), the Historic Preservation Commission (HPC) and the Maryland Historic Trust (MHT).
After several years of due process in coordination with M-NCPPC and HPC, in November 2024 the concept design proposed by INTECaec was approved by HPC.
The project proposes the adaptive reuse of the historic Low-Lift Pumping Station (East Building), the Sedimentation Basin (now a Parking Lot), and a small brick storage building to the east of the site, into a museum dedicated to environmental activist Rachel Carson.
Interior renovations to the historic East Building will redesign and adapt the existing pumping station facility to serve as a museum. On the outside, the existing historic building is preserved, remaining unchanged on 3 sides, and on the fourth side it connects to the proposed addition, a new two-story L-shaped building of 3,300 sf, situated on the stream side along the south edge of the Parking Lot. The new addition connects with the historic building through a hyphen and provides additional museum spaces. The existing and the new buildings are designed to function flawlessly as a whole not as two separate buildings, hosting the Springsong museum with its variety of functions.
Other changes to the Sedimentation Basin area would be limited to improving the parking area and adding a free-standing solar canopy.
