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Honorable Mention

Architect: Marble Fairbanks
Fabrication Consultant: Proxy Design
Geometry Development: Stevens Institute Product Architecture Lab
Graphic Design: Thumb Projects
Contractor: Structure Tone
Metal Fabricator: Maloya Laser, Inc.

Toni Stabile Student Center

Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
New York, NY

This project, a new student center for Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, provides both formal and informal work, meeting, and social spaces for the school, creating a nexus for the flow of the academic life of the building. The project consists of a 9,000sf interior renovation of an existing McKim, Mead and White building and a 1,000sf addition to Columbia University’s Morningside Campus. The project introduces several new spaces that serve as a social and intellectual center for the School: a multi-purpose social hub for student-faculty interaction as well as larger events, a state-of-the art newsroom for students to conduct interviews and reporting, and a more informal student lounge space housed a new, contextually sensitive all-glass addition. Each of the new spaces integrates a custom perforated metal surface that is designed to address a specific set of technical requirements relevant to the respective space and program. These surfaces provide a material consistency to the project and a unified identity for the new social heart of the building.

The ceiling for the new cafe addition, hung below a glass roof, is designed and engineered in conjunction with the low-E insulated glass to reduce the heat loads and allow for a more efficient conditioning system. Two strategies of patterning are used to develop the most efficient means of solar shading for the space: corrugation and perforation. Through a rigorous modeling and scripting process, the corrugation and perforation patterns were developed in tandem to optimize solar shading and reduction of solar heat gain inside the new building, while also maximizing the more qualitive effects of indirect light, evocative of a tree canopy. The panels, each of which is 4' by 4' in size and mounted on a hinge to allow access to the glass roof, were fabricated using computer numerically controlled (CNC) bending and laser cutting machines. Each panel has a unique perforation pattern, and together they form a cloud-like canopy that changes in character as natural daylight varies throughout the day.

 

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