New Hampshire Music Festival Overall Development Plan

Center Harbor, New Hampshire

 

g2+1 was retained by Misaszek-Tupin Architects to provide site and landscape architectural services for this unique project. An early site evaluation identified an existing meadow as a key feature to preserve when viewed upon entering the property and from the front yard of the existing residence, called Festival House, to be repurposed into administrative use. A new music facility was designed to resemble a large barn and to mirror the previous uses of the property. Its location and size presented challenges regarding ADA access, service, fire access, staff parking and creation of outdoor spaces meaningful for visitors and patrons attending musical programs.

 

The proposed facility included a 700 seat orchestral concert hall, 200 seat multi-use salon and public lobby, support facilities and technical/performance support spaces. Two discrete parking areas, totaling 350 spaces, were required to support the proposed facility. One area was developed as overflow parking for major events with a safe but casual pathway provided through the woods and along the meadow. An existing parking area, both larger and closer, was reconstructed for efficient parking and to guide patrons to the new faculty through a series of steps, crosswalks and along landscaped paths to the main entry patio. This patio was designed for ADA access with a serpentine brick walk with interspersed granite steps for those more mobile. A series of outdoor spaces, amply landscaped and carefully detailed, were designed to create a gardenesque setting while defining areas for a breakout patio, group use lawn areas and discrete screening where desired.

 

Final products included fully detailed construction documents for cost evaluation, bidding and presentation graphics for town approvals.