Columbia University Business School
Client: Columbia University (Competition)
Type: Education
Location: New York, New York
Intent: The design for the new Graduate School of Business at Columbia University offers an opportunity to embrace innovation in the pedagogy of business education. The building is designed to use the creative enterprise of the school to facilitate cross-disciplinary interaction between the professional world , the campus, and the community at large. The flexibility of spaces (in both the short and long-term) drives the design approach. The design seeks to remove constraints on both instruction and student development, and to create a building which not only supports the need for flexibility, but which celebrates community as a central tenant. Student work-study spaces and faculty divisional spaces are concentrated in plan and section to promote collaboration across all disciplines. in addition, the spaces are connected vertically within a series of voids and internal stair cases, and paralleled on several floors in one intensified zone. Both Formal and informal interactions and encounters are encouraged throughout the design. Consideration for the interior organisation of spaces in relationship to one another begins with the circulation. Corridors are considered not in terms of size, but for their capacity to contain and distribute large concentrations of people, whilst simultaneously accommodating surges in traffic and lingering individuals.
Credits: Jordan Trachtenberg - Design Architect for UNStudio
UNStudio: Ben van Berkel, Caroline Bos,
Gerard Loozekoot with Jacques van Wijk, Wouter de Jonge, Christian Veddeler, Imola Berczi, Jan Schellhoff, Elena Scripelliti, Joerg Petri, Seok Hun Kim, Nanang Santoso, Hans Peter Nuenning, Erwin Horstrnannshof
Advisors:
Executive Architect: Handel Architectects LLP
Engineering Services: Structural, MEP Sustainability
Curtain Wall: Buro Happold Consultant Services.
IT, Acoustical, Audiovisual, Security: Shen Milsom & Wilke, Inc
Lighting Designer: Renfro Dessign
Wayfinding & Signage: Mijksenaar-Arup
Vertical Transportation: Van Deussen
Expediting and Code Consulting: JAM Consultants Inc.
Estimating Consultants: Stuart - Lynn Company
Roofing & Waterproofing Consulting: Israel Berger Associates LLC
Visualisations: rendertaxi
