New Academic Building For The Cooper Unionfor Thee Advancement Ofscience And Art

摘要

The new Cooper Union building under construction, showing the multiple layers such as the outermost sunscreen layer (left), glazing (centre| and the exposed structure (top). Contextual modelling and analysis is one area that presents opportunities for developing new approaches through information modelling. At Morphosis, issues of urban context are particularly important in the idea-generating processes of a project. Information modelling allows contextual cues to move from implicit inputs to explicit inputs. With this explicit knowledge the firm's designs can be directly responsive, and responses can be measured in a much shorter feedback loop. Detail highlighting the resolution of the handmade glass-fibre reinforced gypsum joints. Through this collaborative process, which takes advantage of the plasterer's expertise, both the architectural intent and a high degree of precision can be achieved without the need for costly CNC-based processes.