Town of Brookline
Brookline High School, STEM Wing Addition
Project
Brookline High School, STEM Wing Addition
Client
Town of Brookline
Location
Brookline, MA
Completion
2021
Size
67,000 GSF
Category
K-12 Education, Renovations + Additions
The Brookline High School Expansion Project creates a unified civic campus around historic Cypress Field. Our first phase of this project was the STEM Wing addition to the historic high school. The project fits into a cherished campus setting, with new welcoming front porches and a unified architectural language, while transforming the streetscape to facilitate a safer and more welcoming student experience when traveling between buildings. The project introduces an new front door to the existing school building. It provides 16 state-of-the-art STEM biology and chemistry labs and flexible use breakout spaces to enable faculty to engage students deeply by increasing flexibility in instruction, exploring connections between subjects and fostering faculty collaboration.
ENGAGING THE COMMUNITY
This project is the result of a highly inclusive design process with over 140 meetings with elected officials and boards, neighbors and residents, educators, and students. The STEM Wing and the Freshman campus at 22 Tappan will increase the capacity of the high school by 700 students, reflecting the city's vision of accommodating its growing student population in the coming years.
PROCESS
Conversations with BHS teachers about plan layouts for the new science classrooms
A town hall meeting takes place around a large site model of the Brookline campus
The WRA design team walk BHS teachers through a full scale mock-up of a chemistry classroom
Members of the surrounding Brookline neighborhood discuss the implications of the campus expansion
Awards + Recognition
2022 BSA Interior Architecture/Interior Design Citation
Project Consultants
Structural Engineer | LeMessurier Consultants, Inc.
Mechanical / Electrical Engineer | Rist-Frost Schumway Engineering
Civil Engineer | Nitsch Engineering
Landscape Architect | Lemon Brooke, LLC.
Interior Designer | Stefura Associates
Sustainability Design Consultant | The Green Engineer
Lighting Consultant | Horton Lees Brogden Lighting Design
Acoustical Engineer | Acentech
AV Consultant | Acentech
Food Service Consultant | Crabtree McGrath Associates, Inc.
Photographer | Robert Benson