West Hills Reggio Center, Huntington, Long Island School Campus, NY Architecture Project Images
West Hills Reggio Center in Huntington, Long Island
May 9, 2021
West Hills Reggio Center
Architects: Scalar Architecture
Location: Huntington, Suffolk County, New York, USA

The West Hills Reggio Center pre-school is based on the Reggio pedagogical approach which fosters community through exploration and discovery in a supportive and enriching environment based on the interests of the children through a self-guided curriculum. The environment as a whole becomes a ?third teacher?.

To enhance pedagogical focus on active and exploratory space, we designed a series of focus relations to the outdoors and more importantly, spatial variety as implemented by the fenestration and roof lines.
As an example, the alternating height window envelope defines child and adult spaces as well as it integrates the sectional shift of the program and topography.

A series of pedagogical legible passive energy and water harvesting methods as well as a geothermal system provide a sustainable structure. Moreover, the roofline ? besides its enunciated role in the harvesting of solar energy and water ? integrates a previous attached 1950 pitch roof structure.

The project is sited on a residential neighborhood with stringent regulations. The design co-opts the standard materials and methods and transforms their assemblage.

This transformation is attained by engendering a series of geometric operat...