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New spaces include multimedia classrooms, meeting rooms, work rooms, and faculty offices. Two interdisciplinary Academic Centers are located on the second floor. A large classroom, distance learning classroom, as well as two anthropology labs occupy the high-ceilinged spaces of the two original chemistry labs.
The corners of the tower addition are irregularly sliced to resolve the strict symmetry of the historic building with the oblique approach from the main campus green.
The building’s renaissance includes the full renovation of all floors and restoration of the exterior shell. This conversion to new office and support space maintains and updates the original industrial character of the building interior, with painted brick and wood walls. The original timber and cast iron floor system, not code compliant, is replaced by an exposed steel structure.
Dalton Hall
Bryn Mawr College
An innovative laboratory building when it was built in 1893, Dalton Hall is part of the National Historic District of Bryn Mawr College. This renovation reestablishes Dalton Hall as a technologically advanced academic building and transforms it from a campus backwater to a campus destination. As the first phase of a new Center for Collaborative Learning and Research, Dalton Hall now connects below grade to the adjacent campus computer center, Guild Hall.
A stair and entry addition, visible from the main campus green, provides a gracious public circulation route without sacrificing space inside Dalton. Its tower form is the most evident signal of Dalton’s revival and allows views of the campus from the upper story lounges. Its lower level permits more program space to be added to Dalton—two classrooms and a lounge—and serves as a functional connector to the adjacent Guild Hall.
Area
33,500sf
Certification
LEED
In the Media
Building Type Studies, Architectural Record
A Feat of Magic at Bryn Mawr, Philadelphia Inquirer