
StanfordNYC
This design for a new, sustainable, state-of-the-art applied sciences campus on Roosevelt Island reflects the cross-disciplinary ethos of Stanford’s unique community of thinkers and entrepreneurs, addresses the University’s programmatic requirements and pedagogical intentions, and creates a memorable sense of place.
Predicated on the dissolution of the traditional purity of academic disciplines and on the corresponding notion that discovery and innovation occur across what once had been boundaries, the integrated architecture and landscape strategy for Roosevelt Island creates places for “productive collisions” among innovators.
The campus is conceived as a series of translational strands – buildings, esplanades, promenades, courtyards, green roofs – that support the essential activities of exploration and innovation: research, teaching, living, playing, creating. As they intertwine, intersect and interact, the strands reinforce and enrich one another, creating a new physical model in which scholarship and entrepreneurship can thrive.
Each architectural strand represents an element of the campus program, e.g. laboratory, office / amenity, faculty and student housing and incubator. In the interstices created by intertwining strands are both indoor atria and outdoor spaces of various sizes and types.
The scale and density of the campus take their cues from Roosevelt Island and the dense urban fabric of the surrounding New York City boroughs, and the massing is directed toward maximizing daylighting, natural ventilation and reducing solar heat gain.
Details
- Year
- 2011
- Location
- New York, NY
- Size
- 1,875,000 GSF
- Program
- Laboratories, Offices, Faculty and Student Housing and Amenities, Incubator Space
Team
- Design Partner
- Richard Olcott
- Management Partner
- Timothy Hartung
- Project Manager
- Molly McGowan
- Design Team
- Amina Blacksher, Christina Ciardullo, Aimee St. Germain, Yu Inamoto, Christopher James, Wanlika Kaewkamchand, Kate Mann, Brian Masuda, Lois Mate, Alex O'Briant, Jarrett Pelletier, Jacob Reidel, Yong Roh, Melissa Sarko
Consultants
- Structural
- LERA
- MEP/FP
- Jaros Baum & Bolles
- Civil/Geotechnical
- Langan Engineering and Environmental Services, Inc.
- Landscape
- Hargreaves Associates
- Ecology/Wetlands
- Sustainability
- Atelier Ten
- Environmental
- Vanasse Hangen Brustlin, Inc.
- Animation
- Red Square
- Traffic
- Stantec
- Pre-Construction Construction Manager
- Turner Construction Company
Press
- 2011
- Lapin, Lisa. “Stanford submits plans for applied sciences and engineering campus in New York City” (stanford.edu, 11/26/2011)