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The Bridge
The Bridge
Beverly, MA, United States
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The Bridge
Beverly, MA, United States
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STATUS
Built
YEAR
2020
SIZE
10,000 sqft - 25,000 sqft
This new 12,000 square foot academic building represents a watershed in the history of Waring School, a private liberal arts middle and high school in Beverly, MA. Serving as a new campus entry point for the school’s faculty and 150 students, the building houses classrooms, informal spaces for independent study and small-group sessions, and an auditorium designed around the All-School Meeting, a daily touchstone at Waring since the school’s founding in 1972.
Meeting the Passive House standard of energy efficiency and indoor air quality, the design also addresses longstanding site-circulation and environmental challenges on the campus. The building replaces a repurposed residential structure that was plagued by periodic flooding. Sited above the flood plain, and spanning a 12-foot vertical slope, the new building provides a fully accessible path—as well as a visual and programmatic bridge—between the school’s lower and upper campuses.
While modern in form and detailing, the design reflects contextual themes in its exterior materials: stucco, like that of existing campus buildings, and vertical wood boards, which blend with the wooded site. The building’s massing stacks two single-story bars, with the upper level rotated 90 degrees to create an L-shaped footprint. The All-School Meeting space occupies the “knuckle” where the two bars overlap. A large glazed opening takes in a commanding view of the lower campus, while serving also as a beacon to those entering the campus.
Meeting the Passive House standard of energy efficiency and indoor air quality, the design also addresses longstanding site-circulation and environmental challenges on the campus. The building replaces a repurposed residential structure that was plagued by periodic flooding. Sited above the flood plain, and spanning a 12-foot vertical slope, the new building provides a fully accessible path—as well as a visual and programmatic bridge—between the school’s lower and upper campuses.
While modern in form and detailing, the design reflects contextual themes in its exterior materials: stucco, like that of existing campus buildings, and vertical wood boards, which blend with the wooded site. The building’s massing stacks two single-story bars, with the upper level rotated 90 degrees to create an L-shaped footprint. The All-School Meeting space occupies the “knuckle” where the two bars overlap. A large glazed opening takes in a commanding view of the lower campus, while serving also as a beacon to those entering the campus.
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