Cadets Go off the Grid

摘要

The Building Team for the Massachusetts Maritime Academy could have taken the easy route: just build a new cadet residence hall on the only remaining open space on the landlocked 55-acre campus at Buzzards Bay, renovate the old dorms as well as possible, and don't even worry about saving energy.rnInstead, the team-including PCA, Inc. (architects), Cambridge; R.W. Sullivan Engineering (MEP), Boston; Erland Construction (GC), Burlington; and Odeh Engineers (SE), North Providence, R.I -took the less-traveled path. They saved the green space by adding two floors-and 150 new beds-above two existing dorms, thus avoiding a "two-class" residence hierarchy for the Academy's 900 cadets: flashy new building vs. 40-year-old dorm.