Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Campus Center Board of Zoning Appeal Application

May 7, 2015

RICHARD A. AND SUSAN F. SMITH CAMPUS CENTER HARVARD PLANNING & PROJECT MANAGEMENT | 3 Project Team

Design Architect Hopkins Architects Partnership LLP Cost Consulting Faithful & Gould 27 Broadley Terrace 55 Summer Street, 3rd Floor London NW1 6LG Boston, MA 02110

Executive Architect Bruner/Cott & Associates, Inc. Food Service Design Colburn & Guyette 130 Prospect Street 100 Ledgewood Place, Ste. 104 Cambridge, MA 02139 USA Rockland, MA 02370

Landscape Architect Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, Inc. Traffic Consulting Vanasse Hangen Brustlin (MVVA) 101 Walnut Street 231 Concord Ave Watertown, MA 02472 Cambridge, MA 02138

MEP Engineering Arup FP Engineering Arup USA Inc Structural Engineering 77 Water Street Civil Engineering NY, NY 10005 Code Consulting Sustainable Design

4 | HARVARD PLANNING & PROJECT MANAGEMENT RICHARD A. AND SUSAN F. SMITH CAMPUS CENTER Contents

I. PROJECT OVERVIEW 7 IV. APPENDIX 65 A. Introduction 8 A. Josep Lluís Sert: Building Holyoke Center 66 B. Key Program Areas 9 1. Historical Context 66 C. Zoning Variance Requests 10 2. Josep Lluís Sert: Architect, Planner, Educator 67 3. Sert’s Planning & Design Principles 68 II. PROJECT PROPOSAL 13 4. The Holyoke Center: Construction 71 A. Project Concept 15 5. The Holyoke Center: Evolution and Key Changes 72 B. Site Plans 16 B. Scope of Demolition and New Construction Plans 75 C. Floor Plans 18 B. Scope of Demolition and New Construction Plans 76 D. Sections 28 C. Existing Materials (External) 80 E. Elevations 34 D. Proposed Materials (External) 81 E. Certified Plot Plan 82 III. DETAILED PROJECT AREAS 37 F. Parcel Block Map 83 A. Massachusetts Avenue 38 G. Photographs 84 B. The Arcade 46 H. Certificate of Appropriateness, April 30, 2015 85 C. Holyoke Street 50 D. Mt. Auburn Street 56 E. Dunster Street 60

RICHARD A. AND SUSAN F. SMITH CAMPUS CENTER HARVARD PLANNING & PROJECT MANAGEMENT | 5 Photography by Mark Flannery Smith Campus Center, circa 2012

6 | HARVARD PLANNING & PROJECT MANAGEMENT RICHARD A. AND SUSAN F. SMITH CAMPUS CENTER I. PROJECT OVERVIEW

A. INTRODUCTION 8 B. KEY PROGRAM AREAS 9 C. ZONING VARIANCE REQUESTS 10 I. PROJECT OVERVIEW

A. Introduction

As a key part of its continuing efforts to improve the University’s Common The Smith Campus Center, currently contains approximately 328,000 SF (GFA) and the Spaces, Harvard is undertaking a project to renovate portions of the Richard A. project will primarily involve renovations on the building’s first, second and tenth floors. and Susan F. Smith Campus Center, formerly known as Holyoke Center and Overall the project will demolish approximately 13,600 SF (GFA) and add net new floor area of originally designed by Josep Lluís Sert. Recent Common Spaces initiatives approximately 7,500 SF (GFA). With its location just steps away from the T and Harvard Yard in have included the addition of comfortable seating in Harvard Yard and the the heart of Harvard Square, the Smith Campus Center will provide a welcoming and vibrant transformation of the Science Plaza as a flexible outdoor gathering space. entrance to Harvard University for visitors and the Cambridge community. The renovated spaces will also create a dynamic new center of University life for Harvard affiliates. “Common spaces are not amenities. They are necessary public The Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Center at Harvard University strives to: elements of the university in its ancient role as a sacred space for ideas, where students, teachers, scholars, visitors, and staff gather • Promote a more integrated campus through the creation of indoor and outdoor gathering informally, work together, relax, recharge, or spark one another in spaces that bring together all members of the Harvard community. The Smith Campus free and provocative exchange.” Center will be a University-wide destination for social, cultural, and intellectual life, Lizabeth Cohen, Dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; welcoming undergraduate and graduate students, faculty and staff; affiliates of all of Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies Mohsen Mostafavi, Dean of the Graduate School of Design; Harvard’s schools; and visitors to Harvard; Alexander and Victoria Wiley Professor of Design CUTLER AVE

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HARTLEY TER I. PROJECT OVERVIEW

B. Key Program Areas

Meeting and Gathering Spaces The key program areas proposed at the Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Campus Center are Meeting and located on floor levels 1, 2, and 10, with a small area located on the building’s mezzanine Event Spaces level. A summary of the key program areas is described below and the distribution of 4 10 program areas is illustrated on the right.

Community Welcome Area - Floors 1, 2 Encompassing both indoor and outdoor space, the Community Welcome Area is a highly transparent space that serves as a gathering place for visitors to Harvard. 3 9 This area is designed as one space and includes both a new Welcome Pavilion and the renovated Forbes Plaza. Uses in this space will enrich the visitor experience Arts and include a two level café, indoor and outdoor seating and gathering areas, an Welcome Area

Information Desk, indoor/outdoor chess playing, Harvard events information and 2 Collaborative/ Meeting ticketing services, and public restrooms. Wellness Common Spaces 8

Common Spaces - Floors 1, 2 Common Spaces integrated throughout the campus center provide a variety of indoor and outdoor gathering spaces supporting a wide range of uses. M Common Spaces 7 Gathering/Collaborative/Meeting Space - Floors 2, 10 Outdoor Mt Auburn Welcome Plaza Area Spaces for use by Harvard affiliates including short-term shared use on the second Café Row Indoor floor, and a range of meeting and event spaces on the tenth floor. Welcome Area

Commercial Food Retail - Floor 1 Common 1 Spaces 6 Commercial food retail space includes street facing venues and those integrated

within the Community Welcome Area and Common Spaces. The project will result in Kitchen an increase in the building’s existing commercial food services.

Arts and Wellness - Floor 2 -1 5 A dedicated arts space and a wellness center (relocated from its current location in the arcade) for Harvard affiliates are planned in the south wing of level two. SCC Project Scope Landscape Scope

*Building also includes sub-basement, which involves no project work.

RICHARD A. AND SUSAN F. SMITH CAMPUS CENTER HARVARD PLANNING & PROJECT MANAGEMENT | 9 I. PROJECT OVERVIEW

C. Zoning Variance Requests

Harvard University is requesting three zoning variances from the requirements of the AREAS OF NET NEW GROSS FLOOR AREA Business B Zoning District and Harvard Square Overlay District of the Cambridge Zoning Ordinance to allow proposed alterations and additions to the Smith Campus Center building. The project will primarily involve renovations and selective reconstruction of the building’s basement, first, second and tenth floors. 4 10

Variance 1: FAR Request: 7,512 SF ≈ 0.1 FAR 3 9 (CZO 20.54.6 - Maximum Ratio of Floor Area to Lot Area (FAR) in Harvard Square Historic Overlay District) To permit an increase in FAR by 0.1, representing 7,521 square feet of Gross Floor Area (GFA), a 2% increase in overall GFA. FAR to change from 4.38 to 4.48. 2 8 Variance 2: Height Request: 3′-11″ to 2% of roof area

(CZO 20.54.2, Building Height Limitations in the Harvard Square Overlay M 7 District) To permit a slight increase in height (3′-11″) above the existing 112′ roof for one 600 square foot room, representing 2% of the total roof area. Height of this room to increase to 116′. 1 6

Variance 3: Alteration and Expansion of a Nonconforming Structure -1 5 (CZO 8.22.3, Nonconformity) As a result of the FAR and height requests, it is also necessary that the project seek zoning relief to allow a legally nonconforming structure to be altered and Building Additions expanded by 2%. Interior Conversions *Building also includes sub-basement, which involves no project work.

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C. Zoning Variance Requests (continued) FAR

FAR NET NEW GFA The project calls for the existing FAR • Projecting Bay At the tenth floor a small, transparent projecting bay becomes a civic gesture to the of 4.38 to increase by 0.1, resulting in community, creating a new beacon and focal point at the roofline of the building. 7,512 SF of net new GFA (Gross Floor • Mechanical Conversions Area). The new GFA is a combination of 10th More efficient building systems have allowed mechanical space requirements to Floor +554 SF 116 SF contract, freeing up excess space to be converted to campus center program space. exterior building additions and interior projecting bay space conversions. The new GFA will be partially offset by demolition, including the removal of the majority of the • Dunster Street Pavilion Roof Terrace existing mezzanine level, and by newly An unoccupied mechanical roofscape along Dunster Street is transformed to an 211 SF exterior green roof that requires new GFA for circulation to provide accessibility. created mechanical and other spaces Dunster Terrace 2,927 SF exempted from the GFA calculation. The Welcome • Holyoke Street Pavilion 2nd+ Area Pavilion The pavilion will be reconstructed in the same footprint with a new second floor allowable FAR is 4.0 per CZO 20.54.6. Mezz +5,971 SF to create a large open “living room” with transparent street frontage. Floors • Welcome Area Pavilion At the second floor facing Massachusetts Avenue, a new, highly transparent, 10,155 SF Holyoke Pavilion two-story Welcome Area Pavilion addition serves as a gathering place for visitors to Harvard for yearround use.

• Welcome Area Pavilion 341 SF Holyoke 1,022 SF At the first floor facing Massachusetts Avenue, a new, highly transparent, two-story Pavilion Welcome Welcome Area Pavilion addition serves as a gathering place for visitors to Harvard Area Pavilion for yearround use. The exterior plaza is redesigned for better comfort, utility and 1st accessibility for the Harvard and Cambridge community. Floor -38 SF • Holyoke Street Pavilion The pavilion will be reconstructed in the same footprint with a small infill addition.

• Underground Garage Conversions for Support Space Underground garage space currently exempted from GFA will be converted to back- Basement +1,592 SF of-house kitchen and support space necessary for the commercial food venues.

Building Additions TOTAL +7,512 SF Interior Conversions

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C. Zoning Variance Requests (continued) Height

Height The new tenth floor glazed projecting bay facing Massachusetts Avenuewill be slightly taller (+3′-11″)

Roof Level than the existing 112′-1″ roofline at 116′. The allowable height112'-1" is 60′ as-of-right, 80′ with a special permit per CZO 20.54.2. This slight height increase will only affect one 600 SF room, representing 2%

of the total roof area. This minimal increase will be located among the building’s other taller rooftopRev. Date Remarks elements which range from 125′ to 154′ in height. The transparent bay will form a compositional relationship with the existing roof monitors and the Welcome Pavlion and serve as a civic gesture to

Harvard Square, creating a new beacon and focal point at the roofline of the building. Date 4.24.2015 Scale 1/16" = 1'-0" Project Number 315-00 Drawn By Author

Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Dunster Street Campus Center

1350 Massachusetts Ave Cambridge, MA 02138 Massachusetts AvenueMassachusetts

4 Welcome Area plans Welcome 1 DesignWelcome Development 2 Welcome 3 4.24.2015 Mt. Auburn Street Auburn Mt.

Requested 4/29/2015 5:14:47 PM 5:14:47 4/29/2015 additional height of Holyoke Street 600 SF +3’-11” to 116’Holyoke Street Holyoke Street Holyoke Street Roof Plan & North Elevation (Represents 2% of roof area)

cross section 5 Common Spaces 1 Common Spaces 2 6 Arcade Landscaping 1 Holyoke Street AP-301 IF THIS SHEET IS NOT: 30" x 42", IT HAS BEEN REDUCED OR ENLARGED. OR REDUCED BEEN HAS IT 42", x 30" NOT: IS SHEET THIS IF Shaded area represents

Holyoke Street Holyoke Street Holyoke Street Holyoke Streetrequested additional 154′-9″ height +3′-11″ to 116′

Arcade cross section 7 Holyoke Pavilion 1 Holyoke Pavilion 2 Holyoke Pavilion 3

Roof Level 112'-1" 130′-7″ 125′-9″ 125′-9″

RoofRoof Level Level 112'-1" Rev. Date Remarks Holyoke Street Holyoke Street Holyoke Street Holyoke Street 112′-1″

Area of requested additional height 8 Mt Auburn 1 Mt Auburn 2 9 Cafe Row 1 Cafe Row 2

Date 4.24.2015 Scale 1/16" = 1'-0" Project Number 315-00 Drawn By Author

Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Rev. Date Remarks Holyoke Street Holyoke Street HolyokeCampus Street Center Holyoke Street 12 | HARVARD PLANNING & PROJECT MANAGEMENT 1350 Massachusetts Ave RICHARD A. AND SUSAN F. SMITH CAMPUS CENTER Cambridge, MA 02138

3 cross section Cafe Row 3 10th Floor 1 10th Floor 2

Design Development 4.24.2015 Date 4.24.2015 Holyoke Street Holyoke Street Holyoke Street Scale 1/16" = 1'-0" Project Number 315-00 Drawn By Author 4/29/2015 5:14:47 PM 5:14:47 4/29/2015

Roof Plan & North Elevation Richard A. and Susan F. Smith AP-301 Campus Center IF THIS SHEET IS NOT: 30" x 42", IT HAS BEEN REDUCED OR ENLARGED. OR REDUCED BEEN HAS IT 42", x 30" NOT: IS SHEET THIS IF

1350 Massachusetts Ave Cambridge, MA 02138

Design Development 4.24.2015 4/29/2015 5:14:47 PM 5:14:47 4/29/2015

Roof Plan & North Elevation

AP-301 IF THIS SHEET IS NOT: 30" x 42", IT HAS BEEN REDUCED OR ENLARGED. OR REDUCED BEEN HAS IT 42", x 30" NOT: IS SHEET THIS IF II. PROJECT PROPOSAL

A. PROJECT CONCEPT 15 B. SITE PLANS 16 C. FLOOR PLANS 18 D. SECTIONS 28 E. ELEVATIONS 34

II. PROJECT PROPOSAL

A. Project Concept

The comprehensive enhancements to the overall site and the basement, first, second and tenth floors of the Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Campus Center are based on the following key design objectives and strategies.

Key Design Objectives Key Design Strategies

• Respect Sert’s original architecture. • Counteract the piecemeal changes to the building, through a The campus center project values and responds to the planning and design comprehensive design approach. principles established by Sert for the building and further enhances the design • Activate the street level and maximize transparency. of the building. • Enhance connectivity and circulation on the first and second floors. • Engage the building with the vibrancy of Harvard Square. The proposed changes to the building ensure that the building further contributes • Integrate and improve daylight and landscape. to the dynamic urban environment of Harvard Square. • Capitalize and reinforce Sert’s pavilion strategy. • Meet the program requirements. The campus center meets the program requirements and enhances Harvard’s • Emphasize the vertical hierarchy of the facades by distributing the efforts to improve common spaces to ensure that Harvard’s physical spaces campus center program at the base and top of the building. foster intellectual, cultural, and social experiences. • Strengthen community.

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B. Site PlansPlan: Existing

Harvard Sqaure T Stop Cambridge Savings Bank

DUNSTER STREET

Bike Parking

Hubway Seating Bike Parking Area Food Venue Food Employee Credit Union

Venue Seating Seating Food Area Area Public Venue Seating Restrooms Chess Area Tables Food Venue Ticket Services MT. AUBURN Security FORBES Wadsworth PLAZA ARCADE PLAZA Gate

HUHS HUHS Food HU Harvard Harvard Pharmacy Wellness Events & Student University Center Venue Information Agencies Information

MT. AUBURN STREET Harvard University Health Services

MASSACHUSETTS

Cambridge

Trust Company AVENUE

Harvard HU Student Outings Food Venue Agencies Retail & Innings

Bike Parking Bike Parking

HOLYOKE STREET Seating Area

Apley Farkas Court Hall

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