St. John Villa Campus

The plan reimagines the 100-year-old St. John Villa campus as an efficiently programmed home for four new public schools and an athletic field serving the surrounding community. The design allows for adaptive reuse of the historic chapel as a learning center, set atop a landscaped knoll that forms a central gathering place with sweeping views of the Manhattan skyline and New York Harbor.

On the south side of the campus, a new primary school and play area features a double-height gymnatorium topped with a sustainably planted roof. On the north, two new high schools, housed in a six-story L-shaped building, frame a four-story gymnasium and auditorium that complements the chapel. Mediating between the historic structure and its larger neighbor, the design connects the campus’s past with its future.