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LEFT, MALKIN CLIMBING WALLS RIGHT, FAIRFIELD FARMS
national league, college, and university sports facilities in the U.S. and abroad, who conceived a 222,000square-foot facility that is a feat of space planning and structural, mechanical, and site engineering, not to mention logistics and operations phasing. Known as the MAC, it has four levels, the equal of three-and-a-third football fields. It embraces the WILLIAM C. FOWLE GYMNASIUM and the THOMAS S CHMIDT RINK and adds to them the ANDREW K. DWYER ’0 1 AND MARTIN DWYER III ’6 5 RINK; a new field house surrounded by a raised jogging track; the HIXON FAMILY 1 0 -LANE S WIMMING POOL; the CULLMAN S QUASH COURTS ; the EDWARD R. DAVIS WRESTLING ROOM; the RUSTY CHANDLER JR.
FITNESS CENTER; training and equipment rooms; new locker and team rooms, and offices. The architects even managed to give a Georgian flavor to the exterior of a building that is thoroughly modern in both scale and function. FAIRFIELD FARMS (see The Landscape, ff) warrants inclusion here as the site of a co-curricular option introduced in 2009. Called FFEAT, for Fairfield Farms Ecosystems and Adventure Team, it offers students an extraordinary opportunity for hands-on farm work and nature exploration.
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