Storyk also said the building is a signature of Berklee’s current president, Roger Brown.
“The goal was to make the rooms have their own signature,” he says. “Happiness for me is to come back in ten years and for it to still look fresh. I think we’ve accomplished that.”
Berklee’s Building Challenges
Storyk says that the building team faced challenges as small as untangling wiring to the tribulations of accommodating all the “talking heads” involved.
“Just the sheer size of the project” was a challenge, he says. “To have this many studios and dorms in the middle of Boston. It’s a perfect storm of craziness.”
Judy Elliot-Brown, the integrator and client project manager for Berklee’s building project, says one of her team’s biggest challenges was managing construction.
For one part of the installation, the construction crew planted a crane in the middle of the building through to the sub-basement level, which reduced space to work.
“The crane’s footprint ran through the mastering room, smack through the main control room on the top floor,” she says. “We had no room.”
Elliot-Brown also says her team faced times where they had to wait for construction to be completed in certain rooms because multiple crew members could not work simultaneously.
“If you’re in a residential building, you can have six things happening at the same time,” she says. “In [Berklee’s] floating rooms, you can’t do that. They had to be built in sequence, not in parallel.”
Storyk says that the building’s design underwent edits, especially with its ceiling heights and basement depths.
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