The Winsor School, Peter Hall

Confined within a landlocked urban campus, this project adds space to support the activities of an expanding student body. The school needed to increase dining capacity from 200 to 350 students; add classroom and science space, faculty offices and meeting areas; and preserve its fields and main quadrangle.
The dining room, created as a pavilion, sits at the far end of the school’s quadrangle amidst the solid masonry buildings of the Collegiate Gothic-style campus. Tall, double-height windows are reminiscent of the fenestration of the school’s auditorium and library, and alternate with precast columns to create a transparent facade that opens onto the quadrangle. When the building is illuminated from within, it shines like a lantern over the campus.
The design adds a new three-story wing to the campus. The main floor houses the school’s new dining hall, and the building’s base houses the school’s maintenance facility and faculty offices; the top floor houses two new science laboratories. The existing undersized dining hall was reconfigured to create five new classrooms, a trustee room and additional faculty space. The new structure improves connections between several adjacent buildings, including direct access to a sciences wing above the original dining hall.

Additional Information

Other projects from this professional

The Fessenden School, Science Center

Design Team Paul Viccica, Lauren Gauthier, Lonnie Ash, Meagan Kelley, Daniel Guzas, Michelle...

University of Massachusetts Lowell – Coburn Hall Renovation & Expansion

Design Team CBT: Paul Viccica, Lonnie Ash, Meagan Kelley (Architects); Rist-Frost-Shumway Engineering (MEPFP);...

The Fessenden School, Elfers Center for the Arts

Design Team Paul Viccica, Eileen Casciari, Daniel Guzas, Meagan Kelley, Lonnie Ash, Lauren...

Northeastern University, Snell Experiential Library

Design Team CBT: Paul Viccica, Lois Goodell, Alicia Kosasih, Natalia Goodall; Skanska (General...

Load more