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Architects: Ann Beha Architects
- Area: 5000 ft²
- Year: 2009
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Photographs:David Lamb Photography
Text description provided by the architects. This small Student Center is a hub and hinge for The Wheeler School’s urban campus in Providence, RI. The campus is constrained by its property size, limited green space, and location within an historic neighborhood. Composed of solid, institutional brick buildings and converted residential structures, the campus faces inward, with its back turned to the community. The Nulman Lewis Student Center sets a different course: transparent, welcoming, and decidedly contemporary. It is the new arrival portal, facing and welcoming the community. The setting and neighborhood may have assumed that a traditional building would be the only appropriate answer for its context, but this building looks forward, advancing contemporary design expression within an historic context.
