An addition to the Café, the Student Center focuses campus life with a flexible assembly space for diverse events. The architecture adapts Bennington's mid-century modernism to make new social spaces, inside and out; it completes a cross-axis opposite Crossett Library by Pietro Belluschi (1959) and extends a new brick terrace toward Fels House by Edward Larrabee Barnes (1969).

Renovations and additions improve access, thermal comfort, and efficiency while preserving architectural and acoustical character for this historic Vermont Barn originally built in 1890.