The design of this adaptive reuse captures the aura of the existing brick and mortar of a 1920’s steam plant. Here there is an opportunity to supplement high school level art and design programs. The reuse of the Willow Street steam plant is a venue where students will have access to out of classroom vocational resources. Here the public school students of Philadelphia are exposed to cutting-edge technology and spaces fit for creation in a recovered fragment in the city’s rich history.