Charged with creating a magnet high school in a tight urban site, the school's program was pushed above and beyond this call by making it a community center as well. Geared towards that subset of teenagers who have a longing to make a difference, but who don't yet know what form that may take, the Leadership School is predicated on intense involvement with the community resources that surround it. The school's materiality and form must therefore accommodate a tension between security and accessibility, and between introversion and extroversion.