Saint Sebastian Hall
Architect // Oak Point Associates
Description
Saint Sebastian Hall is a 17,000 square foot multi-purpose facility designed by Oak Point Associates. The project is located on the campus of Saint Patrick Academy, an historic Pre-K to Grade 8 school located in Portsmouth. Designed to fulfill the need for additional space and amenities, the facility houses a spacious gymnasium for basketball, volleyball, and tennis, bleacher seating for spectators, locker rooms, two flexible learning spaces, a multipurpose platform for presentations and performing arts, storage rooms, and support spaces. The design boasts large clerestory windows that bring in abundant natural daylight to create a bright, comfortable environment and to reduce the demand for artificial lighting during the day. An interactive ‘sports wall’ is incorporated into the south elevation’s construction assembly to extend the building’s program to the exterior and provide a backdrop for children to kick a soccer ball against or practice their accuracy while throwing a lacrosse ball.
