Academy of NYC’s Cooper Union LEED Platinum

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Top-level allows the view to the balcony

The Cooper Union this year to make an innovation for the Advancement of Science and Art, opening a new school building in a wonderful downtown Manhattan club that boasts a green strategy.

The Cooper Union

Designed by morphosis, the project replaces the existing Hewitt, Academic Building, and put a lot of demolished building materials.

The Cooper Union Classroom

Named after its address at 41 Cooper Square in Manhattan’s East Village, 9-story, 175,000 sf environmentally responsible building conceived by the Cooper Union as an innovative educational center for art, architecture and engineering.

NYC's Cooper Union LEED Platinum

The project was designed by Los Angeles-based architecture and morphosis research firm under the direction of the principal and founder, Thom Mayne and fellow architect Gruzen Samton local.

The building consists of a standard window glass and aluminum walls that have been hidden by the dynamic operation of the building skin made of perforated stainless steel panels.

Interior space is designed around a full-height atrium

Off-screen work to control the diffusion of sunlight by reducing the flow of heat radiation in the summer months, and serves as a protective shield during the months of winter, reducing energy loss.

Through the street can get a glimpse inside the building through a crack in the front, but the most surprising view coming from outside the interior space looking out onto the streets of New York.

building skin made of stainless steel panels

The exterior of the building program will also play an important role in shaping the interior space of the academic buildings and laboratories.

Of course, an abundance of interior illuminated window (filtered masked behind the facade), interior space was developed to encourage collaboration and dialogue between the three schools – art, architecture and engineering – which is located in the building.

Academy of NYC's Cooper Union LEED Platinum

Interior space is designed around a full-height atrium with a grand 20 foot wide linear four-story central staircase encased in a lattice plump rising from the ground floor upwards.

Top-level allows the view to the balcony and into the atrium, which provides connecting thread between the school and surrounding cities. In the new building, students can see the entire Third Avenue to see the Cooper Union Foundation Building a short distance away.

41 Cooper Square in Manhattan's East Village

The building is also equipped with an exhibition gallery, auditorium, lounge, and multi-purpose and retail spaces that benefit from 75% natural lighting.

The use of natural light to help reduce the need for artificial light, thus increasing energy savings. Dibagian roof there is a green garden and terrace provides insulation to the interior of the building to minimize the “urban heat island” effect so common in Manhattan. They also reduce the flow of storm water runoff and pollutants into city sewers.

9-story, 175,000 sf environmentally responsible building

Built to LEED Gold standard, 41 Cooper Square recently certified as the first LEED Platinum school buildings in New York City.

source : inhabitat

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