Reggio

Ganeinu Academy is a learning center in a former synagogue that follows a Reggio teaching approach, a method that emphasizes social, hands-on, and student-directed learning. In close partnership with the school, we designed a renovation and plan for expansion. The project accommodates Ganeinu’s growth projections, supports their pedagogical program, and reinvigorates their dilapidated existing building, which was badly damaged during Hurricane Ida.  Caption Caption The masterplan imagines a family of buildings that combine a schooland community center that support the needs of students and theirfamilies. Working with a challenging and irregularly shaped zoning lot,we developed a distinctive massing that maximizes usabl... More