Acadia National Park Hulls Cove Visitors Center
Title:
Acadia National Park Hulls Cove Visitors Center
Subject:
Description:
Sand beach site plan
Bus shelters
Bus pavilion
Parking lot details
Electrical and plumbing details
Sketches, schemes, and final plans.
Roc's comments about Pavilion project:
Park Visitor Center is a travesty. ANP Sup. Paul Haertel asked us for suggestions. We redid the parking lot for Explorer Bus access and built an information "kiosk" or gateway to the 57 stairs that climb up to the disappointing Visitor Center in the hope that our Kiosk would: create an iconographic image that previewed other Island Explorer information and bus shelters throughout the island. A wayfinding image that would be recognizable to people who might not speak English: and the Kiosk would answer questions to a good percentage of visitors and save them the climb to an unattractive destination and get them on their way. Wells Bacon and Carla Haskell helped with this project but I did a great deal of the work by myself as I really liked the project and the design.
Roc's comments about the Bus Pavilions project:
Paul Haertel and Jim Vekasi and Clay Gilley of ANP asked us to design small wayfinding bus shelters for various locations around the island . This is one of them. The idea was to create a visual vocabulary that was evocative of the Acadian region and Park that was similar in appearance to the Visitor Center Pavilion and easily recognizable to foreign and local visitors. Will Fellis and Todd Hardy and Engineer Bill Haney played a big part in realizing this design.
Bus shelters
Bus pavilion
Parking lot details
Electrical and plumbing details
Sketches, schemes, and final plans.
Roc's comments about Pavilion project:
Park Visitor Center is a travesty. ANP Sup. Paul Haertel asked us for suggestions. We redid the parking lot for Explorer Bus access and built an information "kiosk" or gateway to the 57 stairs that climb up to the disappointing Visitor Center in the hope that our Kiosk would: create an iconographic image that previewed other Island Explorer information and bus shelters throughout the island. A wayfinding image that would be recognizable to people who might not speak English: and the Kiosk would answer questions to a good percentage of visitors and save them the climb to an unattractive destination and get them on their way. Wells Bacon and Carla Haskell helped with this project but I did a great deal of the work by myself as I really liked the project and the design.
Roc's comments about the Bus Pavilions project:
Paul Haertel and Jim Vekasi and Clay Gilley of ANP asked us to design small wayfinding bus shelters for various locations around the island . This is one of them. The idea was to create a visual vocabulary that was evocative of the Acadian region and Park that was similar in appearance to the Visitor Center Pavilion and easily recognizable to foreign and local visitors. Will Fellis and Todd Hardy and Engineer Bill Haney played a big part in realizing this design.
Creator:
Roc Caivano
Date:
November 1999-2002
Medium:
5 mylar, 12 tracing paper, 25 graph paper/paper
Pages:
42 sheets
Condition:
great
Collection:
Object ID:
ADC 0201 ROC
Location:
FF D-1, B-31
Place:
Acadia National Park
Street:
Hulls Cove and Sand Beach, Bar Harbor
Citation
Roc Caivano, “Acadia National Park Hulls Cove Visitors Center,” Northeast Harbor Library, accessed March 28, 2024, https://nehl.digitalarchive.us/items/show/205.Item 1199