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CAMPUS MASTER PLAN
Goals
 To provide the up-to-date facilities that will enhance the quality of
student life
 To redesign the campus so it reflects the excellence of the education
provided
 To become a more appealing destination for our neighbors through
the creation of attractive streetscapes, accessible performance
venues, and public dining facilities
 To share what we do with the community through greater
transparency of our buildings
 To comfortably house more of the existing student population on
campus
Forming the Plan
In recent years, the Conservatory has invested in:
 a stellar faculty
 increased scholarship support for our students
It is now time to focus on our campus – a
 cutting edge programs
notofonly
of our
2008 Strategic Plan
 mandate
and renovation
our historic
buildings
but also the professional associations that
grant us accreditation.
Forming the Plan
To begin, NEC engaged in an extensive Master Planning process
involving
all2012,
constituencies
of
the
Conservatory
family
and
predicated
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Project Overview
 The Center will place a College student residence atop a student
life complex.
The new Student Life and Performance Center will provide
students
It will include
a newwith
state-of-the-art
library,
where
our collections
will
and faculty
state-of-the-art
facilities
commensurate
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have
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accessible
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standing
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world-class
school
music
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are
improving
the facilities
and lives of the student and teaching
the
benefits
of
interactive
technology.
center,
and accommodate
the needs
for rehearsal,
lesson, practice,
population
of NEC, reflecting
the vitality
of our institution
and of
and
space
of our
nonresident
students
participating
music.
Theclassroom
Center will
house
a black
box theatre
with backstage
andin
Preparatory
and Continuing
Education
dressing rooms,
an orchestra
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room, and large ensemble
room.
 The student residence will have 252
student beds, a dining hall, and a
commons area.
Project Sketches
If you think you know the New England Conservatory campus,
be prepared to reorient your vision
The Student Life and Performance
Center will take advantage of what is
currently a visual “dead spot” in our
landscape: the northeast angle of the St.
Botolph-Gainsborough intersection that
currently consists of the blank end of the
residence hall and the parking lot entrance.
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Project Sketches: St. Botolph, East
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of the Huntington Avenue buildings.
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Project Sketches: St. Botolph, West
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Currently, a person standing on this spot would
be looking towards the southeast corner of the
Jordan Hall building, framed by the fence
surrounding NEC’s parking lot and the
windowless edge of the old residence hall.
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Project Sketches: Floors 1 - 4
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person facing the building on St. Botolph Street.
Floor 4 is a continuation of the Library
Resource Center.
Floor 3 contains the Library Resource Center,
Performance Commons, and orchestral
rehearsal space.
Floor 2 (at street level) contains additional
dining area, entryway, and reception lobby.
Floor 1 (below street level) contains the Dining
Commons and Black Box theatre.
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Project Sketches: Dining Commons
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Street.
NEC’s parking lot currently occupies this spot.
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Project Sketches: Library Resource Center 1
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Project Sketches: Phase II
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At the left is the building currently
occupied by Uno’s restaurant.
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