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Designed by Morphosis in NY, one of Bloomberg educational center’s most distinctive features is its facade, optimized to balance transparency, views and insulation.

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Morphosis Architects has completed The Emma and Georgina Bloomberg Center, the academic hub of the new Cornell Tech campus on Roosevelt Island. With the goal of becoming a net zero building, the Bloomberg Center is the intellectual nerve center of the campus, reflecting the school’s joint goals of creativity and excellence by providing academic spaces that foster collective enterprise and collaboration. The Bloomberg Center is a four-story building set beneath a photovoltaic canopy, with a low and narrow profile framing stunning views across the island. One of the building’s most distinctive features is its facade, optimized to balance transparency – maximizing daylighting and exterior views, and opacity – maximizing insulation and reducing thermal bridging.

Img.1 Morphosis, The Emma and Georgina Bloomberg Center, New York, 2017

The academic spaces in The Bloomberg Center are designed around fundamental changes in learning and teaching that are happening at all institutional levels today. The Center features a varied set of spaces to support different learning modes allowing for flexible and mobile learning. Collaborative and flexible spaces are as important as private and meditative spaces. While offering traditional classrooms and large open workspace areas, there are also clusters of break-out spaces, huddle rooms, and social areas that allow for group study, as well as quiet rooms and micro-pods that function as private work spaces or telephone booths.

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Img.2 Morphosis, The Emma and Georgina Bloomberg Center, New York, 2017

Img.3 Morphosis, The Emma and Georgina Bloomberg Center, New York, 2017

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Morphosis, The Emma and Georgina Bloomberg Center, view connections

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Morphosis, The Emma and Georgina Bloomberg Center, site plan

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Morphosis, The Emma and Georgina Bloomberg Center, ground floor plan

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Morphosis, The Emma and Georgina Bloomberg Center, first floor plan

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Morphosis, The Emma and Georgina Bloomberg Center, roof floor plan

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Morphosis, The Emma and Georgina Bloomberg Center, longitudinal section

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The Emma and Georgina Bloomberg Center, New York
Program: educational building
Architects: Morphosis
Design team: Thom Mayne (director), Ung-Joo Scott Lee (project principal), Luke Yoo (project architect), Luke Yoo (project designer), Nicolas Fayad, Ed Kwong, Jerry Figurski, Jean Oei (project designer), Christopher Battaglia, Chloe Brunner Debbie Chen, Chris Eskew, Stuart Franks, Farah Harake, Clayton Henry, Ted Kane, Hunter Knight, Jongwan Kwon, Ryan Leifield, Simon McGown, Brian Richter, Go-Woon Seo (project team), Fiorella Barreto, Marco Beccuci, Paul Cambon, Vivian Chen, Tom Day, Justin Foo, Yong Fei Gu, Yoon Her, Sean Kim, Matt Lake, Sangyun Lee, Haidi Liu, Eric Meyer, Nicole Meyer, Jason Minor, Michelle Park, Vincent Parlatore, Conway Pedron, Danny Salamoun, Ben Salance, Suzanne Tanascaux, Matthew Tarpley, Ben Toam (project assistants), Cory Brugger, Kerenza Harris, Stan Su (advanced technology), Stuart Franks, Jasmine Park, Nathan Skrepcinski, Sam Tannenbaum (visualization), Cory Brugger, Kerenza Harris, Stan Su (advanced technology)
Area: 14,865 sqm
Engineering: ARUP
Completion: 2017

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Bloomberg Center

Designed by Morphosis in NY, one of Bloomberg educational center’s most distinctive features is its facade, optimized to balance transparency, views and insulation.

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