Brookline High School - 22 Tappan Building
BROOKLINE HIGH SCHOOL - 22 TAPPAN BUILDING
William Rawn Associates
ARCHITECTS
William Rawn Associates
INTERIOR DESIGNER
Stefura Associates
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT
Lemon Brooke, Llc.
LIGHTING CONSULTANT
Horton Lees Brogden Lighting Design
MECHANICAL / ELECTRICAL ENGINEER
Rist-frost Schumway Engineering
STRUCTURAL ENGINEER
Lemessurier, Lemessurier Consultants
PROJECT ARCHITECT AND MANAGER
Andrew Jonic
FOOD SERVICE CONSULTANT
Crabtree Mcgrath Associates, Inc.
CIVIL ENGINEER
Nitsch Engineering
ARCHITECT, FAÇADE DOCUMENTATION
Mark Borreliz
ARCHITECT, FAÇADE DESIGN + DOCUMENTATION
Dan Bielenin
ARCHITECT, INTERIOR COORDINATION + DOCUMENTATION
Jeanne Carey
MANUFACTURERS
Longboard, Armstrong Ceilings, Crossvile, Curtain Wall, Deer Isle Granite, Glen-Gery, Joseph Cohn & Son Tile and Terrazzo, Nemo
PRINCIPAL IN CHARGE
Sam Lasky
PHOTOGRAPHS
Robert Benson
AREA
118000 ft²
YEAR
2022
LOCATION
Brookline, United States
CATEGORY
High School
English description provided by the architects.
22 Tappan Street is the most expansive component of the Brookline High School Expansion and Renovation project.
This new five-story academic building serves 700 students with general use classrooms, physics labs, special education suites, collaboration spaces, a library, cafeteria, a 125-seat white box theatre, and administrative and support spaces.
The design of the building mirrors the ethos of the Brookline High School – that of openness, equality, and interdisciplinary collaboration. These values are expressed throughout the building.
The front porch unifies the campus through a shared visual language and opens out to the public green space. The white box theater can spill out to the light and transparent cafeteria by means of a large barn door.
Flexible classroom spaces are fitted with clerestory windows, providing natural light into adjacent corridors. The library and conference spaces are highly visible, with direct visual connections to the cafeteria and main circulation paths.
Flexible collaboration spaces between classrooms offer informal group study and expanded classroom break-out spaces.
SPANNING THE GREEN LINE
The entrance to 22 Tappan spans the MBTA green line tracks, creating a safe, welcoming, and accessible front door to the new freshman campus.
The design and successful execution of this feature involved rigorous programmatic planning, close collaboration with the MBTA, and extensive work with consultants to ensure that the trains are neither felt nor heard as they travel under the cafeteria.
This allows the building to face the historic Cypress Field and share the civic quality present among the rest of the Brookline High School campus.
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 22 Tappan Building and STEM Wing Addition 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.
