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The Pike School — Creative Learning Center
Andover, MA
Addition: 21,000 SF; Renovation: 8,400 SF
Visual/performing arts building
Founded in 1926, The Pike School educates 400 students from pre-kindergarten through grade nine. Its campus consists of six interconnected buildings in the International Style. The Creative Learning Center realizes this independent school’s particular commitment to nurturing a "creative spirit" and will provide space for performing and fine arts activities as well as flexible assembly, meeting and classroom areas.
The Center's primary program element is a 280-seat auditorium/theater that serves as a drama and music performance venue as well as a location for class meetings, lectures, and other similar school functions. Gallery space connects the auditorium to the Center’s multipurpose room, which will house smaller gatherings such as curriculum meetings, lectures, trustee meetings, and student presentations. Classroom space in the Center includes music rehearsal rooms with group and individual rehearsal areas, art classrooms with adjoining resource and storage spaces, photography classrooms and wet labs, a ceramics classroom, and drama classrooms and dressing rooms adjoining the auditorium.
Located near the entry to the school, the Center states its presence with a curved-glass lobby encouraging views into a gallery of student artwork and the activity of learning through the day. This transparency reinforces a connection to the creative process and establishes it as a backdrop to daily campus life. An adjoining lawn provides an open, shared green space for students to gather and socialize.
Addition: 21,000 SF; Renovation: 8,400 SF
Visual/performing arts building
Founded in 1926, The Pike School educates 400 students from pre-kindergarten through grade nine. Its campus consists of six interconnected buildings in the International Style. The Creative Learning Center realizes this independent school’s particular commitment to nurturing a "creative spirit" and will provide space for performing and fine arts activities as well as flexible assembly, meeting and classroom areas.
The Center's primary program element is a 280-seat auditorium/theater that serves as a drama and music performance venue as well as a location for class meetings, lectures, and other similar school functions. Gallery space connects the auditorium to the Center’s multipurpose room, which will house smaller gatherings such as curriculum meetings, lectures, trustee meetings, and student presentations. Classroom space in the Center includes music rehearsal rooms with group and individual rehearsal areas, art classrooms with adjoining resource and storage spaces, photography classrooms and wet labs, a ceramics classroom, and drama classrooms and dressing rooms adjoining the auditorium.
Located near the entry to the school, the Center states its presence with a curved-glass lobby encouraging views into a gallery of student artwork and the activity of learning through the day. This transparency reinforces a connection to the creative process and establishes it as a backdrop to daily campus life. An adjoining lawn provides an open, shared green space for students to gather and socialize.