Kendade Hall
| The heart of a new unified science center, Kendade
is a four-story, 40,000-square-foot building that connects the
existing Carr and Clapp laboratories and Shattuck and Cleveland
halls. Kendade houses classrooms, faculty offices, and laboratories,
including labs dedicated to molecular biology and genetics,
advanced physics, and optics. Completed in 2003, the $36-million
science center provides 116,000 gross square feet of new and
renovated space and is home to eight departments: biological
sciences, biochemistry, chemistry, physics, mathematics, astronomy,
earth and environment, and computer science.
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| The most striking feature of Kendade's interior,
a four-story atrium, is also a key component in the College's
efforts to encourage greater interaction and more permeable
boundaries among the sciences. The walls of the atrium literally
provide windows onto laboratory work being done in the various
sciences, while the 3,000-square-foot atrium serves as a meeting
place for the entire community.
The largest campus building project since the renovation
and expansion of Williston Library in the early 1990s, the
science center attracted several of the largest gifts in Mount
Holyoke's history, including an anonymous $10-million naming
gift for Kendade. The center was designed and built to meet
high standards for a wide variety of measures in the areas
of sustainable technologies and practices. The standards conform
to Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) criteria
for a “green building” as established by the United
States Green Building Council (USGBC).
The building was designed by the firm of Einhorn Yaffee Prescott
Architecture and Engineering, P.C., which specializes in the
design of environments for colleges and universities with
an emphasis on science and technology and sustainable design.
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