CUNY Advanced Science Research Center by Flad Architects + KPF: The keystone of CUNY’S “Decade of the Sciences” initiative, KPF’s new science campus positions the school as a world-class research institution and provides state-of-the-art facilities befitting a truly modern university. The Advanced Science and Research Center and the City College Center for Discovery and Innovation offer a positive presence for the Harlem community and serve as a magnet for nationally and internationally recognized researchers. The influx of talent drawn to the new facility will allow CUNY to maintain its status as a premier public university, and one which has historically sought to give back to city with over three-quarters of its students remaining after graduation.
photography by © Jeremy Bittermann
Flad Architects: The complex is designed to accommodate a wide range of research initiatives in many varied disciplines, through the use of a modular utility “infrastructure” that can support varied research requirements. Below grade, the buildings share services including a vivarium, a receiving area, building support activities, and core facilities such as Imaging Modalities, behavioral studies, and cryo-physics. The ASRC building, housing science facilities, is arranged thematically on a floor-by-floor basis focusing on five areas of research: Photonics; Structural Biology; Biosensing/Remote Sensing; Nanotechnology; and Neuroscience. It acts as a CUNY-wide facility providing hoteling for outside research activities. In contrast, the City College Center for Discovery and Innovation houses multiple disciplines on each floor, allowing for work on joint topics and projects. Both buildings promote active collaboration for researchers, faculty, and students.
photography by © Jeremy Bittermann
Project Info
Architects: Flad Architects, KPF
Location: New York, USA
Principal-in-Charge: Rob Graves AIA
Project Manager: David Halpern AIA
Laboratory Planner: Richard Pass AIA
Interior Designer: Jamie Carley
Year: 2014
Type: Educational
Photographs: Jeremy Bittermann, Tim Griffith, Steve Hall Hedrich Blessing, Courtesy of Flad Architects + KPF
