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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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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