Healing by Design | Studio+

Sayre High School has made headlines in the recent years for experiencing indoor temperatures far hotter than any other school in Philadelphia. This negative press could lead many in Philadelphia to write off Sayre as just another “underperforming” school. However, Sayre is part of a larger history of racialized and spatialized trauma enacted by the City of Philadelphia on West Philadelphia. 

For this project, we were presented with a pressing issue: how can we help Sayre become an anchor institution in the Cobbs Creek neighborhood? We sought to assist internal and external communication flows regarding existing resources. Our resource guide is meant to buttress work being done by a Landscape Architecture studio looking to improve the physical conditions of the gravel courtyard in the middle of the school. 

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