In the Student Academic Center, we focus our attention around a gorgeous 400-seat cafeteria that will bring back the days when faculty and students dined together. The new dining facility will prove to be a place where the entire community will gather daily, as well as allow us to have a major meeting and activity space for faculty, students and parents, as well as alumni and trustees.
The new building, an extension of Carey Hall, includes ten large classrooms to ensure that the Upper School maintains its preconstruction inventory, a bright art gallery that leads to the dining facility, art studio space, an improved lecture hall, the design and woodworking shop, bookstore, and other programs displaced because of the renovation.
A brick arcade surrounds the dining hall windows and doors, and a sculpture garden sits just off the arcade, joining the center to a newly landscaped and reoriented Harris Terrace. From Harris Terrace, students will be able to enter the building near the dining hall, or climb steps to the Upper Terrace to gain direct second floor access. The Upper Terrace, when accessed from the front drive, creates for visitors a panoramic portal to the athletic fields. This outdoor space also provides an additional community gathering and outdoor teaching space.
