The Design/Build team of Hutter
Construction and Warrenstreet Architects won an Architectural design
competition and were awarded a contract to design and prepare
contract documents for a 3,500 sq. ft. facility to house the Outdoor
Education program at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, New
Hampshire.
The project is one that had been designed and bid in the spring of
1991 and had come in over budget. The building committee in
conjunction with UNH decided to revise the program and requested
design proposals from interested parties.
Warrenstreet Architects and Hutter Construction examined the old
scheme, visited the site, and provided a new comprehensive building
design. The new scheme responded to the program by integrating it
into the building as well as the site. It provided an economical
balance of structure and aesthetics, allowing for the construction
of a large field stone fireplace to be used for climbing and a
cathedral ceiling multipurpose room that focused on the long meadow
view to the south. The new scheme relocated the building from the
old proposed location in order to maximize, respond and marry the
building to the site itself. The new location set the building at
the edge of the woods rather than the middle of the field and
preserved the old stone foundations of the farm buildings that once
sat on the site.
Warrenstreet Architects, Inc.
27 Warren Street Concord, NH 03301
T 603.225.0640 - F 603.225.0621
