41 Cooper Square Cooper Union

41 Cooper Square, the new academic building for The Cooper Union, aspires to manifest the character, culture and vibrancy of both the 150 year-old institution and of the city in which it was founded. A building that reflects its values and aspirations as a center for advanced and innovative education in Art, Architecture and Engineering.

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The building reverberates with light, shadow and transparency via a high performance exterior double skin whose semi-transparent layer of perforated stainless steel wraps the building’s glazed envelope to provide critical interior environmental control, while also allowing for transparencies to reveal the creative activity occurring within.

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Responding to its urban context, the sculpted facade establishes a distinctive identity for Cooper Square. The building’s corner entry lifts up to draw people into the lobby in a deferential gesture towards the institution’s historic Foundation Building. The facade registers the iconic, curving profile of the central atrium as a glazed figure that appears to be carved out of the Third Avenue facade, connecting the creative and social heart of the building to the street.

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Internally, the building is conceived as a vehicle to foster collaboration and cross-disciplinary dialogue among the college’s three schools, previously housed in separate buildings.

A vertical piazza, the central space for informal social, intellectual and creative exchange, forms the heart of the new academic building.

An undulating lattice envelopes a 20-foot wide grand stair which ascends four stories from the ground level through the sky-lit central atrium, which itself reaches to the full height of the building. This vertical piazza is the social heart of the building, providing a place for impromptu and planned meetings, student gatherings, lectures, and for the intellectual debate that defines the academic environment.

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Photo © Iwan Baan

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From the double-high entry lobby, the grand stair ascends four stories to terminate in a glazed double-high student lounge overlooking the city. On the fifth through ninth floors, sky lobbies and meeting places, including a student lounge, seminar rooms, lockers, and seating areas overlooking the cityscape, are organized around the central atrium. Sky bridges span the atrium to create connections between these informal spaces.

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Photo © Iwan Baan

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Photo © Iwan Baan

Photo © Iwan Baan

Built to LEED Gold standards and likely to achieve a Platinum rating, 41 Cooper Square will be the first LEED-certified academic laboratory building in New York City.

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Axonometric Site Plan

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Plan Basement One Level

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Plan Level One

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Plan Level Two

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Plan Level Four

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Plan Level Nine

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Section

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Atrium rotated views

Total area: 175,000 gross square feet

Completeed: 2009

Client: The Cooper Union

Architect: Morphosis Architects

Design Director: Thom Mayne

Project Manager: Silvia Kuhle

Project Architect: Pavel Getov

Job Captain/Project Designer: Jean Oei

Project Designers:

Chandler Ahrens

Natalia Traverso Caruana

Go-Woon Seo

Associate Architect: Gruzen Samton, LLP

Principal: Peter Samton

Project Manager: Susan Drew

Project Manager: Robert Stack

Construction Management: F.J. Sciame Construction Co., Inc

President: Frank Sciame

Project Executive: Steve Colletta

Project Manager: Robert DaRos

Project Management: Jonathan Rose Companies, LLC

Principal: Jonathan Rose

Project Manager: Sanjeevanee Vidwans

Photographed by Iwan Baan

via : http://www.arcspace.com/architects/morphosis/cooperunion2/cooperunion2.html

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