Weston, MA, 1970, Sasaki, Dawson, DeMay Associates
The Wightman Tennis Center sits on a 16 acre plot of land overlooking the Massachusetts Turnpike in Weston. The site includes an exterior pool and tennis courts as well as interior courts and club space designed by Kenneth DeMay of Sasaki, Dawson, DeMay Associates (now Sasaki). To account for the noise from the Turnpike, the courts were laid along the same North South axis. To break up the monolithic form, the building is cut into a series of shifted volumes designed around alternating sawtooth monitors. The courts each have a dual height space, while the club spaces fill the final volume giving a raised view of the different sports below. The building itself was built incredibly economically with the majority resembling an ordinary steel shed. Thus the large light monitors help create dynamism while remaining in a prefabricated steel system.
Source:
New England Architect and Builder Illustrated, April 1971
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