Currier Center for the Performing Arts, The Putney School
Putney, Vermont
The Putney School is an independent boarding school for high school students. The campus is a hilltop farm in southern Vermont with exhilarating views of the surrounding mountainous landscape. The original farm buildings possess a classic sense of form, proportion and detail: the fabric of the campus is intimate and small in scale. The performing art center introduces contemporary architecture to this rural architectural setting. The program required a building significantly larger than other campus buildings, consequently, issues of siting and scale were central to the design effort. The aggregate massing of the building refers to the historic massing of New England farmhouses, and diminishes the scalar impact of the building. The siting preserves campus-defining open spaces to the east and west. Building forms are embedded topographically into the site, in relationship to an adjacent hill.
The center provides rehearsal and performance space for programs in music and dance. It also provides student art exhibition space and serves as a venue for guest performers and traveling exhibits. Gallery spaces are combined with building circulation to form a vibrant interior promenade that continues the campus path system and is visually connected to the landscape. The gallery circulation spaces link a series of richly colored, skylit interior spaces. Each morning the entire school gathers in the auditorium for Sing-chairs are arranged in concentric circles and the community sings together.
Please see our Flash website at www.charlesrosearchitects.comfor a more complete representation of this project.
Putney, Vermont
The Putney School is an independent boarding school for high school students. The campus is a hilltop farm in southern Vermont with exhilarating views of the surrounding mountainous landscape. The original farm buildings possess a classic sense of form, proportion and detail: the fabric of the campus is intimate and small in scale. The performing art center introduces contemporary architecture to this rural architectural setting. The program required a building significantly larger than other campus buildings, consequently, issues of siting and scale were central to the design effort. The aggregate massing of the building refers to the historic massing of New England farmhouses, and diminishes the scalar impact of the building. The siting preserves campus-defining open spaces to the east and west. Building forms are embedded topographically into the site, in relationship to an adjacent hill.
The center provides rehearsal and performance space for programs in music and dance. It also provides student art exhibition space and serves as a venue for guest performers and traveling exhibits. Gallery spaces are combined with building circulation to form a vibrant interior promenade that continues the campus path system and is visually connected to the landscape. The gallery circulation spaces link a series of richly colored, skylit interior spaces. Each morning the entire school gathers in the auditorium for Sing-chairs are arranged in concentric circles and the community sings together.
Please see our Flash website at www.charlesrosearchitects.comfor a more complete representation of this project.
