Design proposal. Building expansion. The recently formed Brooklyn Waldorf School is currently sharing its spaces with the Brooklyn Music School, the latter being the proprietor of the premises, in two early nineteen century buildings located on Saint Felix Street adjacent to the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

The rapid growth of the BWS necessitated a new design program. The program defined in this proposal, separates the current intermingling of  these two schools and identifies the new functional areas. The Brooklyn Music School maintains most of its premises and a new building for the Brooklyn Waldorf School is designed in the rear of the existing one, precisely over an existing theater belonging to the BMS and currently in rather precarious conditions. Also, the BWS takes over one quarter of the  existing building along the street front and, in that portion, creates its entrance and its own identity on Saint Felix Street. The proposed  demolition involves the portion of the street front that was subsequently  built and hasn’t maintained a continuity with the adjacent part. In this way, what remains of the existing front is typologically coherent in its entirety, and the new addition defines itself as a contemporary response to the densely built surrounding environment. The new building is planned to host educational levels from early childhood to middle school.