Andover’s path to the future
The 2016 Campus Master Plan Recently approved by the Board of Trustees, the new Campus Master Plan (the first since 1996) honors the history of the school by affirming the landscape and organizational concepts introduced nearly 100 years ago by the Olmsted brothers and Charles Platt’s “Ideal Andover” vision and realized by Thomas Cochran III (see page 18). At the same time, A Path to the Future lays out a vision to support Andover’s 21st-century living and learning experience. Guided by the firm Beyer Blinder Belle, Andover pursued a full-year process of discovery and conversations that included energetic engagement with students, staff, and faculty as the community imagined how the campus will evolve to meet future needs. The resulting 15-year plan is based on five guiding principles that serve as a framework for decisionmaking about the near- and long-term physical development of the campus. A comprehensive set of strategies touches on all aspects of campus life: • A sustainable and accessible campus footprint • Connections that integrate places and programs • Reinvigorating the architectural fabric of the community • A diversity of places for interaction and student-centered activity • A diversity of residential experiences throughout campus Highlighted as important themes are connections and sustainability. For example, parts of the plan call for adaptive reuse of existing buildings vs. new construction and resources focused on a sustainable campus footprint. The plan also emphasizes connections: to enhance programming, improve safety, more effectively integrate various far-flung areas of campus, and encourage walking and contact with nature. 20
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For a copy of the Campus Master Plan, visit www.andover.edu/CMP
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Five Guiding Principles
Enhance Phillips Academy's unique sense of place, guiding the evolution of its built and natural environments to support contemporary priorities while affirming the historic character of the campus.
Develop the campus footprint using sustainability as a core value for creating an environmentally responsible learning community.
Maximize the potential for campus spaces to enable openness to new pedagogies and programs that foster interaction, inclusion, and interdisciplinary collaboration.
Strengthen a system of diverse residential neighborhoods that individually and collectively support a sense of community.
Encourage walking, accessibility, and improved connections to the outdoors that support learning and personal well-being.
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GEORGE WASHINGTON HALL The relocation of some administrative functions provide an opportunity for more student activity space.
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NETWORK OF STUDENT ACTIVITY HUBS In lieu of a single student center, the existing network of student activity hubs is strengthened and expanded.
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CULTURAL CORRIDOR A corridor highlighting the arts and culture links existing destinations along Chapel Avenue with the Peabody Museum and a new music and dance building to the west.
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MORSE HALL RENOVATION Relocation of Community and Multicultural Development and student media to George Washington Hall opens up more space for the expanding mathematics, statistics, and computer science program. OWHL + TANG INSTITUTE Oliver Wendell Holmes Library—the intellectual heart of campus—continues to evolve as a “learning commons” linked to the Tang Institute.
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FACULTY NEIGHBORHOODS A cycle of renewal provides energy-efficient faculty homes in neighborhoods within walking distance of the campus core.
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CIRCULATION AND SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS Redesign of Main and Salem streets turns these barriers into connectors. An expanded network of pedestrian pathways improves connections to campus destinations and nature.
UPDATED CLUSTERS: Abbot and Foxcroft Reaffirming a commitment to the cluster system, the plan envisions new dormitories for Abbot and Foxcroft clusters.
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ATHLETIC FACILITIES RENEWAL AND EXPANSION A comprehensive upgrade includes a new field house/squash center, a new pool and gymnasium complex, and extensive renovations within Borden and Memorial gyms.
NEW MUSIC AND DANCE BUILDING A new music and dance building provides a spacious, centrally located home for these vibrant programs.
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