75 Market Street - Eric A Chase Architecture

Construction: Nickerson & O’Day, Inc.
Mechanical, Electrical & Plumbing Engineer:
Carpenter Associates
Civil Engineer: Hedefi ne Associates
Landscape Architecture: Coplon Associates
Photography: Helen Caivano, Geo� rey Fraser
ROC CAIVANO ARCHITECTS
WRIGHT HALL AT SCHOODIC EDUCATIONAL
RESEARCH CENTER
Converting the rusted old “sword” of a naval base into an exciting new
“plowshare” of an environmental study center
Wright Hall is a renovated structure designed
for the National Park Service on their new
campus on the Schoodic Peninsula in Acadia
National Park. Over the past four years
Roc Caivano and Geo� rey Fraser have been working to
convert an abandoned naval base into an education and
research center. The original building, a military dispensary,
was gutted, decontaminated, and then wrapped in
layers of SIPS insulation. The exterior siding is made up of
fl at-seam pre-patinated copper panels and eastern white
cedar treated with a 50/50 mix of bleaching oil and weathering
stain. The interior includes three large classrooms,
two large laboratories, six o� ces, and a library. Solar-collector
windows were added to the south side, and photovoltaic
collectors to the roof. The 20 kilowatts generated
is shared with neighboring buildings when not needed by
Wright Hall.
In the course of the project, many old buildings were
removed, and their salvageable parts were recycled. Concrete
was crushed and used as a sublayer for new roads
and parking. Fraser coordinated eight consultants from
landscape architects to engineers, hazmat specialists to
signage designers. Construction for the entire project—fi ve
structures and the entire landscape—took less than a year.
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