| | The Graham School (2010)
Hastings-on-Hudson, New York
Abstract: Master Planning
Collaborators: DG, Amy Megida, Joe Jang, Jocelyn Elliott, Gianluca Mezzanotte, Gillian Barlow, Denise Hoffman Brandt (landscape consultant), Roger Chang (environmental consultant)
The Graham School is a rich and complex institution originally founded by Mrs. Elizabeth Hamilton and Mrs. Isabella Graham among other New York women of influence as a Society to Aid Poor Widows and their children. It soon became the first orphanage in the United Sates. In response to the congestion and dangers of the city, the facility built a bucolic campus in Hastings-on-Hudson in 1907, that functions today as a boarding school for underprivileged troubled children from New York City.
The original beaux-art campus is a layered diagram of this nation's 19th century attitudes to landscape and public institutions. Our challenging role is to fashion a master plan for the 21st century that is as textured and visionary as the original campus, and to design a new buildings including a school addition, cottage typology and recreational facilities that articulate that vision.
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