Imai Keller Moore is designing a new 15,000 square foot Meeting Hall/Performing Arts Center and renovating the existing meeting space for a new 5,000 square foot Library for The Fenn School, a school for 300 boys from grades four to nine in Concord, Massachusetts.
The school is at the edge of the historic center of town and has a clearly recognizable architectural scale and vocabulary. The scope of these projects and limitations on the available land make substantial change to the existing building pattern inevitable, so IKM has developed a new planning model for the school. Our approach has been informed by archetypes of New England planning and building, such as the town green with fields beyond and the traditional meeting house with belltower, while incorporating elements unique to Fenn, such as the Senior Seats which ring the Meeting Hall. The Library design similarly relates to traditional Reading Room iconography while retaining some vestiges of its former role as meeting hall.
