Working with mission-driven institutions to Define, Plan, and Design facilities that build culture
The 450-seat lakefront Camp Somerset Dining Hall makes effective use of basic truss shapes and efficient slab-on-grade construction to create a grand and welcoming seasonal dining facility and shoulder-season banquet hall. With attached kitchen, dining offices, and toilet rooms in a dogtrot-plan, and ergonomic layout …
Sorensen Partners worked with Swarthmore College to relocate the library technical services offices at McCabe Library to a new space within the library that efficiently meets the department’s present workflow needs. Sorensen Partners conducted an on-site analysis and programming study in conjunction with the College …
Sorensen Partners was Architect and Interior Designer for the 30,000 square-foot re-design and renovation of The Daniel, a 24-room historic boutique hotel by Troca Hotels, including 80-person restaurant, lounge, and bar, guest rooms, and corridors. Coast Bar + Bistro features a dramatic twenty-five-foot-long bar with …
Sorensen Partners was Architect for the construction of multiple laundromats for the North Carolina and Florida-based franchise WaveMax. These were the company’s first New England locations. Sorensen Partners worked under the direction of contractor Key-Construction Solutions, Inc. with Environmental Design Engineering, Inc. (EDE) of Waltham, MA. …
The University Library concept design – including benchmarking, visioning, programming, facility assessment, and conceptual design phase schematic section and plan diagrams coordinated for structural and mechanical feasibility – lays out a five-phase strategy for transforming and improving the Library’s existing 254,500 square-foot facility designed in …
Sorensen Partners was student housing Architect for Wellesley College in addressing planning and feasibility aspects of the College’s 2025 Capital Plan. We produced a concept-phase planning study (including site, accessibility, and furniture plans) for conversion and renovation and/or comprehensive renovation of two floors (6,800 SF) of …
Sorensen Partners assisted Wellesley College in project management for the Jewett Arts Center Conservation Plan Project, which took place in 2015-2017. The project received Getty Foundation funding under its ‘Keeping it Modern’ architectural conservation grants program and is directed by Professor Alice Friedman, with consultants …
Sorensen Partners provided preservation and reconstruction design for Yale University for two 1920s wooden porches and stairs for graduate student housing. Turned wooden porch posts and roofs surviving nearly 100 years were preserved while stairs and balustrades were rebuilt in kind based on a single …
Who of us is not in awe of the new 3D “additive” manufacturing technologies (which most people call 3D printing, thought this term only describes a fraction of the fabrication types). But how do you actually do it? When learning new equipment, the single best …