Architect: SOM (Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill)
Landscaping:James Corner Field Operations
After a year long of competition Mayor Bloomberg has finally announced that Cornell will be the one to help bring forward one of the greatest campuses to be seen. This historic partnership of Cornell and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology will be building a two-million-square-foot applied science and technology campus on Roosevelt Island. The Campus is planned to be a sustainable landmark. Powered by the sun, the ten acre campus is going to be the largest solar powered building in New York City, with four acres of geothermal wells, and 500,000 square-feet of open green space for the publics use and enjoyment. If the campus were built today, the campus's 150,000 square-foot main academic building would be the largest net-zero energy building in the eastern United States.
The LEED Platinum core educational building will be the home for Cornell and Technion, Israel Institute of Technology partnership. The high performance building envelope maximizes daylight, employs demand-controlled ventilation, and will be built with recycled material. All other campus buildings must achieve a LEED Silver minimum and will house residences for faculty, staff and graduate students, a public atria and corporate space.The campus’s solar array will be three times larger than the biggest current solar array in New York City, generating 1.8 megawatts at daily peak. The four-acre geothermal field is composed of 500 foot wells that take advantage of the Earths internal, thermal power in order to provide the necessary heating and cooling for the campus. Electrical power will also be produced from a fuel cell, further relieving dependence from the grid.The Tech Campus will include elements to treat storm water and create community gardens. “Green” landscape concepts include rain gardens and bioswales, green walls and roofs, and reforestation that will create a new, small urban forest. The 500,000 square-feet of proposed green space aspires to become one of New York City’s largest public green space, sharing stellar campus views of Manhattan and Queens waterfronts. The beginning stages of the proposed campus will require a quarter of the electricity from the grid, emit half of the greenhouse gas, and require less than half the fossil fuel to power, heat and cool than a comparable conventional campus that meets current energy codes.
Sources:
http://nycedc.tumblr.com/post/14470840580/mayor-bloomberg-cornell-and-the-technion-announce#.Tu-vwyLaFmA.email
http://www.archdaily.com/179136/cornells-nyc-tech-campus-drives-towards-net-zero-energy-som/
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