MILSTEIN HALL CORNELL UNIVERSITY, USA, ITHACA, NEW YORK, 2006
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| Extension to the College of Architecture, Art and Planning |
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Occupying four distinct buildings at the northern periphery of
Cornell's Arts Quad, the College for Architecture, Art and Planning
(AAP) was a fragmented area, dislocated from the energy of
university life. The new Milstein Hall - a 14,000m2 complex
containing much-needed studio, exhibition and crit space, an
auditorium and a new Fine Arts Library - is conceived not as a
symbolic, isolated addition to the campus but as a connecting
structure: a large elevated horizontal plate that links the second
levels of Sibley and Rand Halls and cantilevers over University
Avenue, reaching towards the Foundry building. Where a car park
once stood between Sibley and Rand, a contiguous, multi-layer
system of buildings and plazas unites the disparate elements of the
AAP, creating a public space adjacent to the campus's most
beautiful feature, just to the north - the Fall Creek Gorge. more.. |
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The four existing buildings of the AAP - Rand, Sibley, the Foundry and Tjaden Hall - exhibit varying architectural styles but share a single typology: linear, corridor-based buildings that segregate the AAP's disciplines in closed rooms behind a labyrinth of entrances, security codes and dead ends. Milstein Hall provides a type of space currently absent from the
campus: a wide-open expanse that stimulates the interaction of
programs, and allows flexibility over time. Within Milstein Hall's
upper plate, which has access to Rand and Sibley, areas are defined
not by walls but by subtle manipulations of the section that
trigger particular uses: a sunken area for the library, raised
areas for crit spaces, and open spaces for studios - all suffused
with light from floor-to-ceiling windows and a grid of
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FACT SHEET
Status: Commission 2006, ground breaking 2009, completion October 2011
Client: Cornell University, College of Architecture, Art and Planning (AAP)
Location: Ithaca, New York, USA
Construction Cost: $36.7 Million
Site: Northern edge of campus between the Arts Quad and the Gorge, adjacent to three historic campus buildings - Rand Hall, Sibley Hall and the Foundry
Program: 4,370-square metre addition to the College of Architecture, Art and Planning including Studios, Critique spaces, Auditorium, Gallery, Exterior Workspace and Plaza
COLLABORATORS
Architect of Record: MEP/FP: Civil Engineer - Site
Utilities: Civil Engineer - Site and Grading: T.G. Miller P.C.
Acoustical Consultant: DHV V.B.
Façade Design & Engineering Consultant: Front, Inc.
Lighting Consultant:
Tillotson Design Associates, Inc. Scape Landscape Architecture PLLC
Curtain Design: Inside Outside, Petra Blaisse
Graphic Design: 2x4, Inc.
Sustainability Consultant: BVM Engineering
CLIENT COMMENTS
"Milstein Hall not only allows a new architecture studio culture to unfold, it also enables a number of collateral moves that are transformative for teaching and learning in the college." AAP Dean Kent Kleinman
CREDITS
Partners in charge: Rem Koolhaas, Shohei Shigematsu Associate in charge: Ziad Shehab Team: Jason Long, Michael Smith, Troy Schaum, Charles Berman, Amparo Casani, Noah Shepherd With Alasdair Graham, Torsten Schroeder, Joshua Beck, Erica Goetz, Margaret Arbanas, Patrick Hobgood, Tsuyoshi Nakamoto, Ritchie Yao, Sandy Yum, Konrad Krupinski, Kengo Skorick, Martin Schliefer, Marcin Ganczarski, Tanner Merkeley, Konstantin August, Klaas Kresse, Mathieu De Paepe, Suzanna Waldron, Daphna Glaubert, Beatriz Minguez de Molina, Jesse Seegers, James Davies, Esa Ruskeepaa, Daniel Gerber, Paul Georgeadis, Julianna Gola, Betty Ng, Michael Jefferson, Christine Noblejas
PRESS
Chronicle Online, May 2009
AWARDS
Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design
(LEED) 2011 Educational Building of the Year |
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