Project Details
- Project Name
- North Campus Residential Expansion
- Architect
- ikon.5 architects
- Client/Owner
- Cornell University
- Project Types
- Education
- Project Scope
- New Construction
- Size
- 776,000 sq. feet
- Year Completed
- 2022
- Shared by
- Madeleine D'Angelo
- Consultants
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General Contractor: Welliver,Structural Engineer: Thornton Tomasetti,Civil Engineer: T.G. Miller P.C. Engineers and Surveyors,Consulting Engineer: MEP/F Engineer | IT | Security | Lighting | LEED: WSP,Geotechnical Engineer: Stopen Engineering,Landscape Architect: TWMLA – A Fisher Associates Landscape Architecture Studio,Other: Acoustical Engineer: Shen Milsom and Wilke,Other: Culinary Design Consultant: Ricca Design Studios,Other: Audio Visual Consultant: Acentech,Other: Commissioning: Horizon Engineering Associates,Other: Dining Interior Consultant: Champalimaud Design,Other: Building Envelope Consultant: Heintges,Other: Signage Consultant: T-Squared Design,Other: Furniture Consultant: Galina Design Group
- Certifications & Designations
- LEED Gold
- Project Status
- Built
Project Description
FROM THE ARCHITECTS:
The North Campus Residential Expansion at Cornell University is a 776,000-square-foot student life residential complex for first year and sophomore students, providing 2,000 beds on two separate adjacent sites on Cornell’s North Campus. The complex is a programmatic synthesis of residential rooms, a dining marche’, collaborative study and learning spaces organized around outdoor courtyards to meet the University’s growing class size and its commitment to provide exceptional underclassman living learning experiences. The residences are organized into 3 to 5-story courtyard buildings to engage the adjacent campus, to respond to existing site conditions, and to help foster the variety of interstitial and serendipitous collegial exchanges crucial to student life. Central to this organization is a 1,000-seat dining hall that offers a variety of micro-restaurants to enhance the student life experience. Red and grey terracotta masonry walls with punched windows complement the neighboring north campus buildings by acting as modern re-interpretations of the existing residential facilities, while upper-level residential lounges—located at building ends and corners—are wrapped in a curtainwall to capture campus views and serve as visual beacons; a highly transparent ground floor promotes outward social interaction with the entire community. Lake source cooling and rooftop photovoltaics assist in achieving LEED Gold certification.
