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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 The In January resulting plan NEC set forth submitted an ambitious an Institutional program Master that has Plan been the On these pages, we will document our progress as we move forward on the needof to work withinNotification and optimize the existing footprint of real foundation Notification form/Project the conceptual design rendered Form to with the great City imagination of Boston with this eagerly anticipated project. estate Conservatory: four buildings and parking lot by ourowned through architects, whichbyitthe seeks Ann Beha approval Architects. forthe construction. surrounding the intersection of Huntington Avenue and Gainsborough Street. 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 with have a safe and accessible home andofresearch canperformance be done with all our standing as a world-class school music and We 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 rehearsalprograms. 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. All sketches created by Ann Beha Architects Project Sketches: St. Botolph, East The entrance This sketch shows in thethe center Student of the Life sketch andleads to Performance amenities including Center thefrom Blackthe Box standpoint Theatre, of a person standing publicly accessible ondining St. Botolph area, and Street library. at theThe corner of Gainsborough windowed corner above the andentrance facing east. makes Thethe edge of NEC’s orchestra rehearsal existing spaceBotolph visible from building the isstreet. visible at the right ofstanding this sketch. Currently, a person on this spot would be looking at NEC’s parking lot and the backs of the Huntington Avenue buildings. All sketches created by Ann Beha Architects Project Sketches: St. Botolph, West At thesketch This centershows, of theright-to-left, sketch is theNEC’s “prow” existing of the Botolph– building SLPC the projecting, as it connects windowed to the corner Student at the Life and Performance second-floor level that makes Center, thefrom orchestra the standpointspace rehearsal of a visible personfrom standing the street. on St. Also Botolph Street atarethe visible improvements corner of Massachusetts to the landscaping Avenueof and facing NEC’s sidewest. of St. Botolph Street. 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. All sketches created by Ann Beha Architects Project Sketches: Floors 1 - 4 This cutaway Together, these sectional four floors drawing represent showsthe thepublicly lower accessible component of the four floors SLPC, of with the Student dining, performance, Life and and library amenities that will be open to the Center, Performance public asfrom well the as to standpoint NEC students, of a faculty, and staff. 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. All sketches created by Ann Beha Architects Project Sketches: Dining Commons Part of This sketch the SLPC’s shows the publicly Student accessible Life and Performance amenities, the Dining CenterCommons from the standpoint also includes of a person who isplatform performance inside thevisible street-level at the far Dining end of Commons this sketch.and facing out onto St. Botolph Street. NEC’s parking lot currently occupies this spot. All sketches created by Ann Beha Architects Project Sketches: Library Resource Center 1 This Library The sketch shows Resource the Center Student is Life part of andthe SLPC’s publicly Performance Center accessible fromamenities. the standpoint of a person who is inside the lower level of the (NEC’s parking lotCenter currently spot.) Library Resource and occupies facing outthis onto St. Botolph Street. All sketches created by Ann Beha Architects Project Sketches: Phase II Amenities thisproposed sketch include a streetThis sketchvisible showsinthe Phase II of the level cafeLife and and rehearsal/performance spaces Student Performance Center fromin the upper floors.of a person standing on standpoint Currently, a person on thisofspot would Huntington Avenuestanding at the corner be looking at the windowless wallNEC’s of NEC’s Gainsborough and facing south. historic Spaulding Library andisthe upper of the Jordan Hall building visible at floors the right of residence hall. this sketch. At the left is the building currently occupied by Uno’s restaurant. All sketches created by Ann Beha Architects