Located in Brooklyn, New York, near Fort Hamilton and the base of the Verrazano Narrows Bridge, Poly Prep sits in an Olmsted-like park composed of an entry drive that winds between two ponds and several hillocks to the school's original courtyard building dating from the 1920's. The new structure partially encloses and forms a new courtyard between the original structure and a campus town beyond that forms an entry to the dining hall.
Located in Brooklyn, New York, near Fort Hamilton and the base of the Verrazano Narrows Bridge, Poly Prep sits in an Olmstead-like park composed of an entry drive that winds between two ponds and several hillocks to the school's original courtyard building dating from the 1920's. The new structure partially encloses and forms a new courtyard between the original structure and a campus town beyond that forms an entry to the dining hall.
Also part of this connection, the windows act as proportional joiners to the rest of campus. Joining a window to a masonry wall is always an act of some compromise. The window is precise and the masonry is inherently crude. Generally, the construction joint is closed with flexible sealants. Here, however, shadow, not material becomes the joint between window and wall. Inside, the infrastructure is organized in the corridor in open steel trays to permit maintenance access. This upper-class science teaching facility consists of one chemistry laboratory, two biology labs and a physics lab. Each has an adjacent classroom with a faculty office and student project laboratory.
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