community Projects
Waldorf School of Philadelphia
The Waldorf School of Philadelphia had been searching for a new permanent location for many years when we looked at St Peters church in Germantown. We were fascinated by the details and craftsmanship of the 150 year old buildings and their grouping together, creating beautiful in-between spaces. For us this seemed the perfect match for the Waldorf School. As parents at the school we brought this to the site search committee, became members of the committee and the board of…
Cooperative Nursery School
The Cooperative Nursery School (CNS) was founded in 1967 and is a non-profit, parent-owned and –operated preschool. The school runs its program out of a small stone cottage surrounded by wooded grounds of the Unitarian Society of Germantown. We were asked to help with some renovation work, focusing on the outdated kitchen area. Having ‘co-oped’ there ourselves we thought it was a good time for revisiting the spatial organization of the school and how it was used by the children,…