Completed renovations and additions to Chaffee Hall at the Loomis Chaffee School will include a choral rehearsal and performance hall, a large rehearsal hall, administrative offices, a library, and storage facilities.

Kenneth DeMay of Sasaki Dawson & DeMay, a nationally recognized firm which still exists today, designed Chaffee Hall in 1968. The building’s design represents a campus within a campus – with highly articulated surfaces suggesting multiple buildings and a number of steeply sloped monitors – which create an energetic skyline.

The current project includes completely renovating the existing facility by converting an existing gymnasium into a 290-seat professional-quality performance/rehearsal space, and designing an addition with a new lobby, concourse, rehearsal and practice spaces, classrooms and offices. The new addition is respectful to the existing structure, but adds an architectural vocabulary that creates a dynamic new image and presence for Loomis Chaffee’s music program.