GRAHAM-WINDHAM SCHOOL FOR INTENSIVE LEARNING
The Graham-Windham school for intensive learning, located on Hastings-on-Hudson in New York, called for an imaginative yet contextual addition and expansion of the existing learning campus. The idea for the addition was to be a school born from the free ideas of Henry David Thoreau's Walden, the Waldorf School learning environment and the Settlement House idea, combining a rural/individual and urban/group environment.
Programatic relationships became an integral part of the design process, curating the experience a child has throughout the day.
In order to maintain function of the school during construction, the project was built around a series of construction phases, each with their own challenges.