Location: Cotuit, Cape Cod
Photographer: Brian Vanden Brink
Contractor: CH Newton
Architect: Hutker Architects

The Cotuit Center for the Arts is designed to have several activities happening at once - while an event is happening in the performing arts theater, patrons might gather in either of two galleries to view art exhibits.

The challenge with this project was to create a heating, ventilating and cooling system that could adjust to large groups of two hundred or more in the theater, while also providing comfort to a few dozen in the galleries. In addition, the system needed to maintain perfect comfort while also maintaining relative silence in all locations.

We worked closely with acoustic engineers in designing the many HVAC systems that were exceptionally quiet, yet powerful enough to cool hundreds of patrons on even the hottest of summer days.