SUNY Fredonia Jewett Hall Renovation

Sited along the Student Success Corridor at SUNY Fredonia, Jewett Hall is a 1960s-era modernist building at the heart of the campus master-planned by modernists I.M. Pei and Partners and Dan Kiley.

The planned renovation of the 65,500 GSF building will transform the building from its former use as a science building into a center for Student Services. Each of the entries will be renovated to provide universal access, announce arrival, and invite students to utilize the services within.

Honoring the legacy of Kiley’s original landscape plan, the project will install a new formal planting of ginkgo trees to echo the adjacent original honeylocust grove and utilize a minimal material palette to integrate with the campus context.   

The site design creates appropriately-scaled entry plazas with granite block seat walls, while the south-facing lawn accommodates new garden spaces, ornamental plantings, and seating to support the campus’ social opportunities.