Design studio HGA has completed a pair of educational facilities, Mills Hall and Gibbons Center, that are among the first "commercially scaled mass-timber buildings" in the state of Maine.
Located near a grove of mature pine trees, the neighbouring buildings are in the southeast corner of the 215-acre (87-hectare) Bowdoin College campus in the city of Brunswick.
HGA has created a pair of mass-timber buildings at Bowdoin College in Maine
While different in size and colour, the buildings have asymmetrical pitched roofs that "play off each other from different vantage points".
Both buildings also have mass timber frames, wooden interior finishes and brick facades.
The buildings sit next to a grove of pine trees
The materiality was influenced by the region's forests and the existing brick buildings at Bowdoin College, which was established in 1794, "at the dawn of the American republic". Today, the private college has about 1,900 students from around the world.
The structures have mass-timber structures and brick facades
The new buildings ? officially called Barry Mills Hall and the John and Lile Gibbons Center for Arctic Studies ? were designed by American studio HGA, which served as both architect and structural engineer.
The studio collaborated with Consigli Construction Co, which is based in the eastern US.
While the facade colours are different, both have gabled roofs
The larger of the two buildings is Mills Hall, a two-storey academic buildin...