Detail: The R.W. Kern Center Timber Structure

摘要

The R.W. Kern Center at Hampshire College in Amherst, Mass., was designed to be "rooted in its place," says Jason Jewhurst, aia, a principal at Cambridge, Mass.-firm Bruner/Cott & Associates. Completed in 2016, the two-story, 17,000-square-foot building houses the school's admissions department, classroom and gallery space, and a coffee bar. "We steered ourselves toward really honest materials," says Bruner/Cott principal Jason Forney, aia. "So you have this palette of materials that are very much true to themselves." For example, the Kern Center features a half-dozen wood species, chosen specifically to cohere within the space: black spruce for the glulam; ash and birch for the doors; salvaged red oak for the flooring and monumental stair; pine for the ceiling; and cedar for the exterior.