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FRONT
EXTERIOR VIEW
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| EXISTING
FACULTY OFFICE BUILDING
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The original buildings for Concord
Academy are a series of converted, wood-frame Victorian residential structures
lining Main Street, in the few blocks between the town center and the
railroad station of Concord, Massachusetts.
Behind the Main Street buildings, a large green has evolved around which
several modest classroom-buildings and a cafeteria building constructed
between from the late 1960s and early 1970s. The new Concord Academy Arts
Building is the piece that finally encloses this green, creating a true
campus feeling.
To accomplish this task, the Arts Building needed to embrace and contain
the northwestern corner of the green, accomplished by creating a central
entrance between two intersecting wings. The northern wing contains the
large music room on the first floor, with classrooms and faculty offices
above. The western wing contains studios of painting and fabric arts on
the first floor, and studios for ceramics and print making on the second
floor, with photography darkrooms and video editing suites below grade.
For material, detail and color, architectural precedent was taken from
both existing buildings on campus and the Longy School of Music, outside
Harvard Square in Cambridge Massachusetts. The result is a new Arts Building
that pleases and delights the supporters, administration, alumni, faculty
and students of Concord Academy.
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