Working with mission-driven institutions to Define, Plan, and Design facilities that build culture
Sorensen Partners was participatory design workshop leader and ethnographer for the University of the Pacific (UOP) Libraries staff and leadership, and with the Department of Support Services / Physical Plant, in summer 2017 to facilitate understanding and discovery of Library staff and faculty interactions and …
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 is Architectural and Utility Analyst to MassHousing, providing Condition Needs Assessments (CNA) and Utility Analyses for large multifamily properties undergoing consideration for rehabilitation financing from the housing finance agency. Our CNA and Utility Analysis work includes a detailed narrative report and photographic documentation …
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 was Architect and Interior Designer for Rowan University Campbell Library’s University Special Collections & Archives Room, built in 2017. Located adjacent to the lobby on the library’s third floor, the 4,200 square-foot Special Collections Room includes a reading room, climate-controlled archival storage room, …
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 …
Marie S.A. Sorensen contributed to the schematic design for a 53,000 SF comprehensive renovation of Cornell Law School’s Myron Taylor Hall, built in 1932, the central building in the School’s collegiate gothic campus, and a 7,000 SF infill addition to the Library. Myron Taylor Hall’s renovation …