Zesiger Sports & Fitness Center

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Architect	Kevin Roche, John Dinkeloo & Associates
Completed	2002
Scope	125,000 gsf
design features	Olympic-class 50-meter pool seating for 450 spectators 11,000-square-foot fitness center 5,000-square-foot court facility six squash courts
Awards	2003 Architectural Showcase Facility of Merit Athletic Business Magazine

The Albert and Barrie Zesiger Sports and Fitness Center has had a major impact on the quality of MIT campus life since its opening in 2002. The state-of-the-art complex includes an Olympic-class 50-meter pool, seating for 450 spectators, a training pool, an 11,000-square-foot fitness center, and six squash courts built to international competition standards. A 5,000-square-foot multi-activity court offers volleyball, aerobics and recreational basketball. The complex also includes a 3,700-square-foot sports medicine area, administrative offices and locker rooms.

Pritzker Prize-winning architect Kevin Roche, John Dinkeloo and Associates designed the Zesiger Center to link a number of existing athletics facilities. By visually connecting the south facades of the Howard W. Johnson Athletics Center and the Stratton Student Center, it completes the north wall of a quadrangle originally envisioned by noted architect Eero Saarinen in his plan for the development of the MIT campus west of Massachusetts Avenue.

Project Team

Project Managers/MIT	John Hawes, Milan Pavlinic
design architect	Kevin Roche, John Dinkeloo & Associates
executive architect	Sasaki Associates, Inc.
mep engineers	Cosentini Associates
structural engineers	LeMessurier Consultants
construction manager	Turner Construction Co.