BEDROOM 107 SF LIVING / DINING 139 SF
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CL. 8 SF CL. Payson Smith Hall 10 SF Renovations University of Southern Maine Portland, ME
KITCHEN 104 SF ENTRY 94 SF
CL. 4 SF Street 120 Bedford TLT. 54 SF
Renovations University of Southern Maine Portland, ME
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Kalikow Education Center University of Maine Farmington FARMINGTON, MAINE
New construction 44,500 sf Construction cost $5.3M Completed 2007 LEED-Silver Certified Work in Progress Citation, 2003 American School & University Architectural Portfolio The challenge of the Education Center design was to fashion an environmentally sensitive building by adopting the LEED criteria on a modest ($145/SF) budget while at the same time providing architecture that facilitated teaching and learning.
The building is oriented to take advantage of solar energy and natural daylighting. It is heated and cooled by a geothermal heat pump system that circulates water through closed-loop wells to draw warmth from the earth in winter and return it in summer.
Sloped ceilings in some south-facing rooms reflect sunlight into the working areas of offices and classrooms. A welcoming student lounge near the entry provides study and social space.
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The Farmington campus is known for its “green” stance, from the students to the president, so the design has taken advantage of an array of sustainable materials and practices: • Geothermal heating and cooling • High-performance wall systems • Local materials and workmanship • Incentives for recycling and responsible transportation • Landscape design using native plants and no irrigation • Use of existing site with water and sewer hookups • Recycled materials in carpeting, wall panels, and furniture • Recycling of construction materials • High recycled content in structural steel • Low-emission paints and flooring materials
“Strong focus on energy efficiency and use of recycled materials. The building blends well into the environment.” —Work in Progress Citation, 2003 American School & University Architectural Portfolio
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Science Building Lobby Renovation University of Southern Maine PORTLAND, MAINE
Renovation Completed 2015 What began as a very straightforward light-touch renovation to USM’s 1970s-era Science Building became an opportunity to enliven a building that is frequented by students and campus vistors. Large-scale images were introduced to fill the walls over the benches where students gather to sit and study. Today’s visitors are used to having all kinds of images available at their fingertips, but here they are introduced to the dramatic, powerful detail of the sciences on a much larger graphic scale. The 10 x 10-foot images explode with color and provoke viewers to question what it is they are seeing. The 18-foot image from the Hubble Space Telescope of the Orion Nebula is the siren attracting visitors downstairs to the Southworth Planetarium.
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Christie Hall Addition Northern Maine Community College PRESQUE ISLE, MAINE
Renovation 5,000 sf New construction 17,000 sf Construction cost $2.4M Completed 2003 The Christie Hall project accomplishes three goals: 1) a major expansion of the library/media center, 2) expanded space for the Business and Industry Program and the Campus Learning Center, and 3) a new multi-media conference center. In order to accommodate increased demand for training in emerging software applications required by local businesses, the Business and Industry Department now has a state-of-the-art conference center that will accommodate up to 300 people. The library expansion, which more than doubles the square footage, will allow print and electronic collections to double over the next twenty years. The library works in conjunction with the Learning Center, which provides enhanced resources to enable students to focus on developing core skills. The building has been designed with particular attention to energy conservation. Daylighting in the library is precisely calibrated to the longitude of Presque Isle. A motorized folding partition system can subdivide the conference center for breakout sessions.
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Maine Criminal Justice Academy VASSALBORO, MAINE
Renovation 80,800 sf New construction 24,000 sf Construction cost $11M Completed 2001 2002 Maine Preservation Historic Preservation Honor Award: The brick-and-limestone Oak Grove complex, a former boarding school, was built in sections between 1928 and 1962. The English Tudor structure overlooks the Kennebec River, with a magnificent view toward the western mountains. Bought by the state in 1989, it sat empty for a decade until the Maine Criminal Justice Academy selected the property for its new home. Many of MCJA’s functions fitted into Oak Grove’s classrooms and specialized spaces with relatively little reorganization. The lecture hall was inserted into the old chapel, making use of the existing floor-to-ceiling windows and laminated ceiling trusses. A new 19,000-s.f. addition houses the gymnasium/tactical center, with a running track on the second level. The tactical center is equipped with garage doors, streetscape murals, and street lighting for training simulations. COLLEGE + UNIVERSITY
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The exterior remains as faithful as possible to the original, with the exception of the removal of the ivy, replacement of windows and roofs, and repointing. Two unobtrusive stair towers provide ADA access and fire egress. Besides new mechanical, sprinkler, and security systems, and a water heater sufficient to provide showers for the entire class at the same time, data drops were wired into every office and dormitory room. Digital projectors were provided in conference and teaching spaces, and a firearms training simulator installed.
“The multiple challenges that the Academy and its design/ development team overcame in order to breathe contemporary life into a large, empty, deteriorating historic property tells an excellent story of ‘preservation-in-action.’Your attention to detail, particularly the preservation of historic finishes, serves as a model for others to follow.” —Maine Preservation Historic Preservation Honor Award
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University Health Care/ VA CBOC University of New England (now SMMC Primecare) SACO, MAINE
Renovation 3,000 sf New construction 21,800 sf Construction cost $3M Completed 2002 A new medical office building designed for University Health Care and the Veterans Administration abuts a converted 3,000-sf Colonial Revival house. Since its acquisition by SMCC PrimeCare in January 2012, the first floor of the facility continues as a primary and specialty care facility and as a teaching affiliate of the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine. The design integrates clinic spaces with teaching/work areas for interns and residents. The second floor is a Community-Based Outpatient Clinic of the VA, delivering primary care and behavioral health services to veterans.
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By visually integrating the character of the old house with the new building, the design strives for patient-friendly spaces without an institutional feel. New landscaping and the retention of the lot’s tree line and rock walls help preserve the residential character of the neighborhood.
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Laurette Ayotte Auditorium Thomas College WATERVILLE, MAINE
New construction 8,800 sf Infrastructure upgrades in existing building Construction cost $1.2M Completed 2000 A new conference center wing for Thomas College houses a 300seat conference/ lecture/ performance facility and two backstage breakout conference rooms. The skylit entrance provides a new focal point for the campus and a new pedestrian link between the student union and the main academic complex. The lobby is equipped with TV monitors for overflow conference audiences, and there is an uplink connection point for TV broadcasting on the exterior of the building.
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Backstage are two high-technology conference/classrooms separated by an operable partition. The speaker can choose from a century’s worth of teaching technologies: blackboards, white boards, lecterns, overhead projectors with automated screens, television/ computer monitors, and computer data and voice wiring.
The new auditorium is connected to the athletic facilities and the main building by a new pedestrian link and a renovated connector with new infrastructure upgrades.
“Long considered at the high-tech forefront among Maine’s higher learning institutions,Thomas College has taken another step forward by building the Laurette Ayotte Auditorium and classroom complex.The auditorium, which features 160 computer ports wired for Internet access—each interfaced with the Thomas Web-based computer administrative system—is the first of its kind in the country. In addition to easy Web access, the complex boasts advanced voice, video and data technology, along with the ability to link instantaneously with servers at the school’s library.” —Interface Tech News, May 2000
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Campus Master Plan Unity College UNITY, MAINE
Master plan for 225-acre sustainable campus With Terrence DeWan and Associates Completed 2008 PDT Architects and Terrence DeWan and Associates led a community-wide planning process starting with a planning weekend open to the entire campus community. Students, administrators, faculty, and board members gathered to imagine the future of the Unity campus. The workshop inspired participants in an exchange of ideas, dreams, and practical decisions informed by Unity’s environmental curriculum and principles. Six small groups drew new campus plans and presented their visions. PDT and DeWan used materials from the workshop as a basis for three alternative plans. A further series of campus workshops resulted in the choice of the Streams and Bridges plan as the basis for further refinement. The final plan emphasizes working with the natural landscape and water flow across the sloping, northeast-facing site.
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Executive Leadership Center Husson College BANGOR, MAINE
Planning only: preliminary concepts, floor plan layouts, perspective sketches Completed 1999 The concept plan that PDT executed for Husson’s Executive Leadership Center includes two seminar classrooms with raised tiers for 40 students, one for distance learning/video conferencing and the other for in-house mixed media presentations. A new media control center will allow for audio and video editing, with ancillary break-out conference spaces and a mock trading floor for the Business School.
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Computer Sciences Building University of Maine Farmington FARMINGTON, MAINE
New construction 14,200 sf Construction and site cost $1M Completed 1992 This pivotal building anchors the northeast corner of the campus plan and links the “neighborhood� of Mantor Library directly across the street and Olsen Student Center next door. Computer instruction and support are provided 24 hours a day to students and faculty from this 2-story facility with a simple square shape, a daylight basement, and very disciplined mechanical and structural systems. The building has two front faces: the formal front acknowledges the importance of the central academic quadrangle and the library directly opposite; the rear entrance, a colorful, whimsical approach from the parking lot, was designed to accommodate expansion. Architectural detailing on the quadrangle, including brick articulation, a formal front porch, and a slope-roofed penthouse, were scaled to respect the Carpenter Gothic student center to the south. This is a small, smart building that works very hard to respond to a complicated context and evolving educational programs.
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Student Center Southern Maine Community College SOUTH  PORTLAND, MAINE
New construction 28,000 sf Construction cost $2.2M Completed 1990 In the process of studying space needs for various departments across campus, PDT found that there was no central place where students could take care of numerous needs in a relaxed atmosphere. Primarily a commuter campus, SMCC needed to offer its students a home base from which they could operate during the day. The SMCC Student Center consolidates numerous student services such as registration, financial aid, accounting, finance, tutoring, computer labs, library, bookstore, and study skills in one umbrella building. The Student Center was strategically located at the crossroads of major pedestrian pathways so that it could become, physically as well as symbolically, the heart of the campus.
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Bernard A. King Building Kennebec Valley Community College FAIRFIELD, MAINE
New construction 45,000 sf Construction cost $2M Completed 1985 This multi-purpose building was designed as a strategic element in the consolidation of the two original campuses into one. In order to build sufficient square footage within the State of Maine’s reduced funding limit, PDT developed an extraordinarily economical and efficient building that houses a library, a cafeteria, a bookstore, and a snack bar as well as classrooms and laboratories for allied health, drafting, and business courses.
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Learning Resource Center University of Maine Augusta AUGUSTA, MAINE
New construction 21,400sf Construction cost $1.63M Completed 1991 This expansion of the existing UMA library acts as the hub for the University’s Distance Learning Program. From its television studios and interactive tv classrooms, the university broadcasts lectures and holds conferences with remote sites throughout the state. The largest of the TV studios is also used by officials for State of Maine broadcasts. The facility houses an audio recording studio, a control room, computer rooms, meeting and classroom spaces, and a 9,000-volume expansion of library stack space. Allowing a seamless interior transition for users, who cannot tell when they are moving from “old” to “new” spaces, the building contains very carefully organized structural and mechanical systems that deliver sophisticated technology on a modest budget. The 3-sided addition, which doubles the size of the library, supports the existing 1970s architectural vocabulary and allows expansion to the west.
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BEDROOM 107 SF LIVING / DINING 139 SF
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CL. 10 SF KITCHEN 104 SF ENTRY 94 SF
CL. 4 SF TLT. 54 SF
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