Cornell Tech Releases New Renderings of Net-Zero Campus on Roosevelt Island

Prospective students hoping to attend <a href="http://inhabitat.com/nyc/morphosis-to-design-first-cornellnyc-tech-building-on-roosevelt-island/">Cornell Tech</a> can now get even more pumped up looking at new renderings of the school's future campus on Roosevelt Island in NYC. The prestigious school just released <a href="http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Oct12/NYCTechLandUse.html" target="_blank">the new images</a> of their 12.5 acre campus, which will include one of the largest energy-neutral buildings in the U.S. The campus masterplan is being designed by <a href="http://som.com/" target="_blank">Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, LLP</a>, and Pritzker Prize-winning architect <a href="http://inhabitat.com/tag/thom-mayne/" target="_blank">Thom Mayne</a> and <a href="http://www.morphosis.com/" target="_blank">Morphosis Architects</a> are working on the first academic building .

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Cornell Tech will begin construction on their new Roosevelt campus starting in 2014 and expects to have Phase I completed by 2017. The overall campus plan is being designed by <a href="http://som.com/" target="_blank">Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, LLP</a> and will include the first academic building, a corporate co-location building, an executive education center with hotel facilities, a residential building for students, faculty, and staff, as well as more than one acre of public open space.

<a href="http://www.morphosis.com/" target="_blank">Morphosis</a> is in charge of the first academic building that features a large rooftop photovoltaic canopy to make the facility net-zero energy.

"Just as Cornell Tech will be pioneering new approaches to graduate research and education, our campus won't look like any other university campus that exists today," said Daniel Huttenlocher, dean of Cornell Tech. "We are determined to innovate in every aspect of the development, from the way that students, faculty, researchers, industry and the community are intermingled, to the sustainability of our buildings and their iconic architecture."

Review of the new plans commences now and will continue for the next year and construction won't begin until 2014. Phase I should be complete by 2017 and by then new graduate students will have a state of the art campus in which to learn.

<a href="http://tech.cornell.edu/" target="_blank">Cornell Tech</a> is now taking applications for its <a href="http://tech.cornell.edu/tech/apply/#ap" target="_blank">"Beta Class"</a> as part of the Master of Engineering Program in Computer Science which will start this January.

View of Roosevelt Island now and the Cornell Tech campus will take up the southern half.