Brookline Infill and Small Developments

The Pierce Public School, Brookline. The historic portion is a classic. The new addition is I believe is a1970s modern, sort of Utopian open plan complex/ social experiment. Not a failed experiment but more of the wrong application. Anyway, the demolition has started.
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40 Centre Street Brookline- Elderly housing development. The brick is a nice touch instead of all panel system. The rigid insulation behind the masonry is concerningly thin!! I hope there is more R-value on the stud constrction or we will have some cold seniors. This whole street is basically a concentration of elderly housing developments/business, not a bad thing considering the street is a walkable neigborhood with an active social area one block over on Harvard Street.
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dhawkins said:
This whole street is basically a concentration of elderly housing developments/business, not a bad thing considering the street is a walkable neigborhood with an active social area one block over on Harvard Street.
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It does raise the question of why, seemingly, Brookline only permits large multi-family buildings if they are 55+ restricted, including 32 Marion St. nearby.
 
dhawkins said:
40 Centre Street Brookline- Elderly housing development. The brick is a nice touch instead of all panel system. The rigid insulation behind the masonry is concerningly thin!! I hope there is more R-value on the stud constrction or we will have some cold seniors. This whole street is basically a concentration of elderly housing developments/business, not a bad thing considering the street is a walkable neigborhood with an active social area one block over on Harvard Street. View attachment 55277
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My mom and dad used to live at 100 Centre Street before moving to an assisted living facility.

You are spot on about that strip being a good center for elderly housing - - what many don't think about is that it makes it far more efficient for 1-2 hour caregivers to be able to book 4 or 5 clients in a concentrated area in a single day. In this respect this is "Smart Planning".
 
HenryAlan said:
The before and after makes me sad. The section they are updating is a really interesting building, and the massing for the replacemnt looks like a boring bunker.
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The plans developed in the early design phases had pretty heavy emphasis on keeping most of the building. I have to imagine that was pretty costly, and unfortunately we are ending up with mostly new construction. The good news is that's a preliminary massing, so expect more to come.
 
stefal said:
The plans developed in the early design phases had pretty heavy emphasis on keeping most of the building. I have to imagine that was pretty costly, and unfortunately we are ending up with mostly new construction. The good news is that's a preliminary massing, so expect more to come.
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This design seems relatively well-developed as of a couple of years ago. Has something changed? Basically just current school vernacular - a little disappointing from Sasaki. I do give them credit for incorporating the historic building, though the interior of the addition looks like quite the thing.


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Equilibria said:
This design seems relatively well-developed as of a couple of years ago. Has something changed? Basically just current school vernacular - a little disappointing from Sasaki. I do give them credit for incorporating the historic building, though the interior of the addition looks like quite the thing.


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I was not aware this had been fully developed.... time really slipped away from me here considering the dates on these....

Regarding the building design, that is Miller Dyer Spears (and looks pretty typical/good for them). I believe the setup here was Sasaki would be undertaking the planning and site design, and MDS would handle the building design (which they are well experienced in) - you can see in the presentation you linked that their logos for site plan and floor plan are split.

This was a pretty good strategy for Sasaki if they're trying to get into Public K-12 work, which is pretty much restrained to a handful of firms (including MDS) in the state with how procurements and procurement requirements/evaluation factors typically lean.
 
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