STRATEGY 5 A Diversity of Residential Experiences Throughout Campus
SUSTAINABLE HOUSING STRATEGY
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Complementing the academic and administrative architecture of the campus, the residential buildings of Phillips Academy impart a very different character. A range of residential building types creates an intimate, domestic scale, whether by intentional design, such as the cottages on Old Campus Road and the pods of the Pine Knoll dorms, or due to the adaptation of existing houses. The wide variety of student housing offers a diversity of choices, allowing the academy to tailor the residential experience to individual student needs – a key differentiating factor of the Phillips Academy experience. Student housing is also distributed across the campus, surrounding and intermingling with core
academic areas and creating a mixed-use atmosphere that enlivens the whole campus day and night. All parts of campus are “home” for Andover students, forming a complete living and learning environment. The Campus Master Plan is based on careful consideration of both the type and location of student housing, informing a strategy of renewal that maintains the diversity of housing options, while moving towards greater equity of experience for all students, overcoming challenges of building condition, lack of indoor and outdoor common spaces, and distance from the core campus.
West Quad dormitory
Old Campus Road housing
PHILLIPS ACADEMY CAMPUS MASTER PLAN
As described in this section of the report, the Campus Master Plan’s housing strategy has three branches: to continually improve existing housing that currently functions well; to adapt exist buildings to better suit faculty and family needs; and to strengthen the student housing clusters and faculty neighborhoods by replacing outlying, outmoded or inefficient buildings.
Samaritan House