Portsmouth Abbey School

Portsmouth, Rhode Island
Architect: Ikon.5
Contractor: Advantage Glass Holdings

Portsmouth Abbey School outside shade cover

Project Overview:

Portsmouth Abbey School, a Catholic coeducational Benedictine boarding school, in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, is one of the premier boarding schools on the East Coast. Founded in 1926 by the English Benedictine Congregation, the School is located on a 525-acre campus along Rhode Island’s Narragansett Bay.

Portsmouth Abbey School’s Student Center is a stunning 8,000-square-foot structure on the western side of campus, perched behind the Kennedy Classroom Building and facing Narragansett Bay. Conceived as a ‘student porch’ from which members of the Abbey community can gaze out on the world, the elegant, one-story structure was inspired by expressed student desires and will provide a host of spaces designed to support academic collaboration, casual socializing and school-related events.

Key Contribution by ELEMENT:

  • Design, Engineering, Fabrication and Supply of exterior perforated shading canopy.

ELEMENT Services:

  • Design Review
  • Preliminary materials, manufacturing, engineering, scheduling and budget estimation
  • Presentation of options and solutions, including schedule, scope and budgeting aspects of various options
  • Engineering analysis, calculations and submittals
  • Prototyping and Samples
  • Mockups
  • Fabrication
  • Delivery