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 MILLER STREET PITMAN STREET CHILTON STREET AVON PL SPRING STREET HURLBUT ST LAUREL AV. KENNEDY MASSACHUSETTSAVENUE VASSAL LANE CYPRESS STREET TIERNEY HARRIS STREET BEACON STREET BEECH STREET DONNELL STREET EAST FRESH POND PARKWAY FAYERWEATHER STREET STREET GARDEN GARFIELD STREET SACRAMENTO STREET 21 ST TRAYMORE GARDENS STREET BOWDOIN STREET OVERLAND STREET ST ARCADIA CONCORD AVE GRAY STREET EUSTIS STREET • Provide flexible, accessible, and sustainable spaces that permit a wide range of uses for KELLEY STREET GRAY LINNAEAN STREET STANDISH STREET GRAY GARDENS MARTIN ST 20 ROBINSON STREET 1705 26 SOMERVILLE AVENUE YAWKEY WAY OXFORD ST GARDEN COURT SAVILLE STREET WEST Botanic Gardens 5A Sacramento Field BLEACHERY CT. BURLINGTON AVENUE WORTHINGTON STREET CRESCENT STREET KENT COURT VASSAL LANE Kittredge LAKEVIEW AVENUE WATERMAN RD LEXINGTON AVENUE Conway Playground HOLLY AVENUE 3 5 Kingsley Park MARTIN STREET FERNALD DRIVE Comstock SACRAMENTO PL Graham & Parks WRIGHT STREE SACRAMENTO STREET KENT STREET B & M RAILROAD POPLAR RD HUTCHINSON MADISON STREET School AVON STRE HURON AVENUE FULLERTON STREET GARDEN Faculty Row Maria L. PARK STREET all, including spaces for relaxation, places for eating and gathering, meeting spaces, study GARDEN TER GURNEY STREET STREE Pforzheimer House Baldwin School WEATHER STREET ONNELL STREET UE T ALLE OPERZI WAY ROAD ST ET with Circle T D olbach STREET CARVER STREET N CT. W PR VAN NESS STREET Tuchman WALKER STREET LAKE VIEW AVE Cabot 113 HUDSON Beck FAYER Holmes BEACON STREET HOWLAND ROYAL AVEN MANASSAS AVENUE Moors 107 WENDELL STREET Hall TOWER CT. HAWTHORNEBROOKLINE AVENUE PARK GRANVILLE Center for E Bingham Landmark Center D Entry Astrophysics C 103 TYLER STREET 160 Harvard WENDELL STREET HARRISON STREET Currier House Whitman GORHAM RESERVOIR STREET Briggs Hall MALCOLM ROAD Observatory STREET Dance Center SHEPARD STREET A Jordan North HURON AVE Gilbert Quadrangle RADCLIFFE B Daniels STREET QUADRANGLE STREET IVALOO STREET Athletic Center North Hall Harvard @ Trilogy St. Peter's Perkin Lab Jordan South areas, and performance and display space for the arts; HURON AVENUE IRVING ST 3 MUSEUM STREET School STREET Barnard FRANCIS AVENUE 1637 OXFORD STREET WYMAN ROAD Eliot Baker Hall HAMMOND STREET CONCORD AVE Hilles BOND ELIOT STREET Cabot House MASSACHUSETTSAVENUE PARK STREET PARK DRIVE HAMMOND STREET RUTLAND American Academy of STREET GARDEN STREET MELLEN STREET APPLETON RD 56 VILLAGE AVENUE BOYLSTON STREET 52 Oxford Street Arts & Sciences Bertram STREET 10 Palfrey 12 20 MORGAN STREET SHEPARD STREET LANGDON Garage Rockefeller Jewett 14-16 MANSON STREET BLAKESLEE STREET HEMLOCK ROAD 18-18A Lesley University- KILMARNOCK STREET Andover NEVADA AVENUE HURON AVE BUCKINGHAM Terry Terrace Doble Campus GURNEY STREET PETERBOROUGH STREET HEALEY STREET 60 Oxford Hall Center for the Study DUNSTABLE RD 23 Engineering 27 HARVARD of World Religions FAYERWEATHER STREET 1607-1615 Science APPLETON STREET 40 DIVINITY SCHOOL RIVERWAY EVERETT STREET Lab 38 Oxford OEB Building Properzi Way RESERVOIR STREET 7 WALKER STREET Northwest 5 Bunting Quadrangle 10 Everett Street Green House SCOTT STREET Shaw Dane AVENUE 38 Garage Andover-Harvard SKEHAM STREET PARKER STREET 34 BRYANT STREET 36 Theological Library Clinical Wing Story Ames HOLDEN STREET SPARKS STREET CRAIGIE CIR. Holmes Bike Shelter N QUEENSBERRY STREET CHAUNCY STREET Conant MCZ LAKEVIEW AVENUE Wasserstein MANSO Lab Farlow Vanserg Hall Perkins Biological Labs • Establish a welcoming and vibrant entrance to Harvard University for visitors, current and Shannon CONCORD AVENUE Caspersen IRVING STREET LEXINGTON AVENUE Richards University Wheelock Buckingham Browne & Student Center Museum of DURHAM STREET GROZIER ROAD 30 Herbaria College BUCKINGHAM STREET Child BEACON STREET HIGHLAND STREET Nichols School Comparative FENWAY LARCH ROAD Zoology Divinity Hall BRI BUCKINGHAM PL 29 Maxwell SCOTT STREET Pound Dworkin Holden Green Hauser Harvard BREWSTER STREET Longy School Hall Museum Tozzer FRANCIS AVENUE CA Shattuck International CRAIGIE STREET HARVARD SCHOOL OF of Music FOLLEN STREET of Natural LDW'L AVENUE BROOKLINE AVENUE House Holy Trinity Armenian BERKELEY STREET ENGINEERING AND Lewis History Apostolic Church FARRAR STREET PILGRIM ROAD Simmons Church of APPLIED SCIENCES RIEDESEL AVENUE College Christ, HARVARD Pierce Harvard BERKELEY PLACE CONCORD AVENUE Peabody Museum ABERDEEN AVENUE Semitic Residence KENNEDY ROAD Scientist LAW SCHOOL 11 GARDEN ST KIRKLAND PLACE prospective Harvard affiliates, and the Cambridge community; and Campus Harvard-Epworth United Museum Hoffman Lab 61 MEADOW WAY Methodist Church Link LINE STREET FRESH POND LN Areeda DIVINITY AVENUE 9 CHANNING STREET Langdell Bauer Fairchild MYRTLE AVENUE Lab Harvard LARCHWOOD DR FRESH Cruft KIRKLAND STREET Lyman Naito HASTINGS AVENUE 20 Hastings Yenching ACON PLACE MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE Griswold Emmanuel College BE WATERHOUSE STREET Converse Library POND BRATTLE STREET LISE OXFORD ST 2 Lippmann ST. JOHN'S ROAD McKay LOWELL STREET Sheraton-Commander Mallinckrodt Kirkland PARKWAY Jefferson Hemenway William Court BERKELEY STREET Hotel BRATTLE STREET SPARKS STREET Conant ROBERTS ROAD Building Gym Music James Adolphus RD Beth Israel Longfellow House Austin Lab BALDWIN