Having spent several years strengthening their curriculum and faculty, Tilton School wanted a building that represented the many positive internal changes. SA designed a new multi-purpose academic building that organized the school’s program requirements to closely align with its academic mission. The program included three new science laboratories and prep rooms, a 114-seat seminar… Read more »
Project Category: Educational
Lisbon High School Gymnasium
The Lisbon School Department had been using a defunct multipurpose room as their gymnasium and auditorium for years. After years of debate, the Lisbon community passed a referendum for a bond to fund the construction of a new facility. SA designed the new 17,830 SF gymnasium and renovated portions of the existing building to provide… Read more »
Gould Academy Hanscom Hall Library and IDEAS Center
SA has worked with Gould Academy since 2007 on various projects, including a campus Master Plan. More recently, we have been working with them to design modern teaching and learning spaces that provide opportunities for interactions outside the classroom in small, casual unstructured gathering spaces. The first area to be renovated was the Sanborn… Read more »
Brewster Academy- Anderson Hall Performing Arts Center
Brewster Academy was using a converted church building for choral performances and an old gymnasium for theatrical performances. SA designed a renovation of the former church to create a new Performing Arts Center that provides a performance space with excellent acoustics and the tools for learning all aspects of performing arts from acting to… Read more »
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
SA in collaboration with Maclay Architects designed Maine’s first Net-Zero, LEED Platinum institutional building, the Bosarge Family Education Center at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens. The Center has flexible classroom and meeting spaces, exhibit spaces, lobby, and outdoor terraces that provide strong connections to the surrounding gardens through transparency, view, and multiple points of… Read more »
NYA Learning Commons
We recently renovated the former library located in the classroom building at North Yarmouth Academy to create a Learning Commons that responds to how students learn today. This project involved careful renovation design and engineering to work with the constraints of the existing building. Originally a basketball court before it was a library, large arch-top… Read more »
Berwick Academy: Inspiration Commons
The Berwick Innovation Center provides students with an evolving program to drive their learning experience in new and creative ways. SA was hired to re-purpose an underutilized portion of their existing campus library to create a student commons and maker space that could be used by students of all ages. SA’s design concept transformed the… Read more »
Lincoln Academy: Campus Plan
Lincoln Academy wanted to update their Campus Plan to incorporate recent projects and to plan for a new Performing Arts Center. After conducting programming interviews, SA met with the building committee every two weeks over five months to review potential site improvements, building renovations and additions, and new construction. We studied connectivity, traffic patterns, academic… Read more »
Olin Auditorium & Classroom Renovations – Colby College
In a series of renovations, two different learning spaces in Colby College’s Olin Building were transformed to align with current teaching and learning practices in underutilized spaces. In the existing lecture hall, the traditional seating format was retained but the space was upgraded to introduce different layers of user control for sound and lighting to… Read more »
Tilton Residence Hall
As part of the Master Plan involving the new Academic Building and Student Center, Tilton School envisions three additional residence halls on campus. The first of these, sited on the east campus near the library, was designed to house 36 students and to include three faculty apartments. The design transcends the traditional corridor plan facing… Read more »