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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Iwan Baan
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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Iwan Baan
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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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Iwan Baan
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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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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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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
www.arcspace.com
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