STRATEGY 3: THE CHESS GAME
STACKS REMOVAL TO OPEN UP NEW SPACE
REIMAGINING OF LIBRARY USE AND DESIGN OWHL LEVEL 2
CLASSROOM UPGRADES PEARSON
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IMPROVING OWHL + TANG INSTITUTE The Oliver Wendell Holmes Library is the intellectual heart of the campus – a home for research, instruction and knowledge creation. The Campus Master Plan recognizes the pivotal and changing role of the library and identifies it as one of the nodes within the student activity network. The library hosts students across a range of teaching and learning experiences, in silent and group study spaces, using digital and analog resources to consume and create knowledge. A “learning commons,” the library provides space and programming that encourage students and faculty to come together. The recent addition of the makerspace, “The NEST,” is an example of a dynamic spirit of innovation. The Tang Institute’s culture of innovation and interaction complements the library’s. The Campus Master Plan recognizes these synergies and suggests that the Institute’s preliminary home in Pearson Hall is well located and that expansion in place is a good strategy. The Campus Master Plan recommends that the Tang Institute’s presence in Pearson and its physical
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PHILLIPS ACADEMY CAMPUS MASTER PLAN
RENOVATED HOME FOR CLASSICS
LEVEL 1 RENEWED EAST CAMPUS WALK AND PLAZA
LIBRARY LOBBY RENOVATION
BASEMENT EXPANSION OF TANG INSTITUTE
Concept of proposed changes to OWHL and Pearson
and programmatic relationship to Oliver Wendell Holmes Library be legible to the campus community. The Campus Master Plan envisions a new entryway and exterior plaza to OWHL along an improved East Campus Walk that is a welcoming entrance and a connecting device between the two buildings. Within Pearson, a home of the Classics Department
will be created on the second floor, resituating the department in an appropriately sized space. The academy has recently embarked on a study, separate from the Campus Master Plan, to consider programming and space planning that re-imagines the way the library is used and better integrates the programs located within it.