Science and Mathematics Building
St. Mary's College of Maryland, Maryland
Schaefer Hall is a 56,000 square foot building housing laboratories and other teaching facilities for the biological sciences, physics, chemistry and mathematics. The building also accommodates three seminar rooms, five classrooms, a lecture hall, a computer lab, faculty/departmental offices, and support spaces.
The building is sited to form the corner of a new quadrangle, visually linking an existing fine arts facility and the College's gymnasium. An open passage runs through the first floor, linking the new quad to a parking area. Multiple entry points to the building make it convenient to use and enhance the individual identities of the academic programs it houses.
Because the College is located in the historic district of Maryland's original colonial capitol, Schaefer Hall uses materials, scale and massing characteristic of nearby 17th and 18th century Tidewater architecture. Primary materials are brick, divided-light wood sash windows and slate roofs. The articulated building massing, two-story height, and gabled roofs of the building maintain the delicate scale of St. Mary's older buildings. A major visual feature of the building are paired chimneys situated at the gable roof ends in the style of old manor houses; in this case they provide exhaust stacks for laboratory ventilation.
The building is sited to form the corner of a new quadrangle, visually linking an existing fine arts facility and the College's gymnasium. An open passage runs through the first floor, linking the new quad to a parking area. Multiple entry points to the building make it convenient to use and enhance the individual identities of the academic programs it houses.
Because the College is located in the historic district of Maryland's original colonial capitol, Schaefer Hall uses materials, scale and massing characteristic of nearby 17th and 18th century Tidewater architecture. Primary materials are brick, divided-light wood sash windows and slate roofs. The articulated building massing, two-story height, and gabled roofs of the building maintain the delicate scale of St. Mary's older buildings. A major visual feature of the building are paired chimneys situated at the gable roof ends in the style of old manor houses; in this case they provide exhaust stacks for laboratory ventilation.
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