PHASE I
New Buildings & Facilities
Providing the best for our students
In February of 2004, the school’s architectural team of Peter Gisolfi Associates, Christner Inc. and the McCarthy construction firm presented a plan for major campus enhancements. The goal was to draw on the past two years of community input from faculty, parents, students, alumni and consultants to present a plan for Burroughs’ future. The plan is a blueprint for how the campus could look in three to five years if the funds — $50 million or more — can be raised to support it.
Intimate theatre space with black box stage
Intimate theatre space with black box stage Just to the south of the Olin Field House, the master plan calls for the construction of a 31,000-square-foot theatre building which features three separate spaces: a 400-seat theatre, a small black box rehearsal stage and a dance studio. With state-of-the-art lighting, sound, acoustics, traps and flies, orchestra pit, rehearsal space, dressing rooms and storage space, the theatre will enable the theatre department to mount the types of productions that our increasingly sophisticated theatre program demands in order to grow.
Enhancements — dining room, fine arts, parking lots and fields.
Enhancements — dining room, fine arts, parking lots and fields. Phase one of the master plan also calls for the creation of new parking areas, roadways and green spaces to the south of campus, modest expansion and remodeling of the dining room, reconfigurations of spaces in the fine arts building (when the band and orchestra relocate to the new facilities), and improvements to the playing fields and track. Our performing arts spaces have not been significantly updated since Haertter Hall opened in 1958.
PHASE II
New Buildings and Facilities
Providing the best for our students
An 800-seat, multi-level performance gymnasium
Just to the north of the Olin Field House the architects have proposed a 43,000-square-foot, 800-seat performance gymnasium on the site of the old tennis courts and the outdoor swimming pool. The gymnasium would feature a multi-use floor, a weight room and fitness center for our physical fitness program, locker rooms, coaches’ offices and meeting rooms. The facility would serve as our primary performance gymnasium, replacing the over-utilized and undersized 1947 Memorial Gym. The Memorial Gym will be kept as a practice space for our ever-expanding athletic program.
A new Haertter Hall auditorium, commons and music rooms
Located in the heart of the campus, Haertter Hall has served as our community gathering place for assemblies, concerts, programs, musicals, plays and speakers for nearly 50 years. The master plan proposes the construction of a new 41,000-square-foot building — on the same site — including a 712-seat auditorium (large enough to seat the entire student body, faculty and guests, which is not possible in Haertter now); music rooms for orchestra, band and choir; a senior lounge; offices; a new commons that connects the auditorium to athletics, the theatre and gymnasium. A campus bookstore will be added to the commons as well. The auditorium itself would be designed to serve as a concert hall, acoustically and structurally distinct from the theatre space.