Influential architecture firms Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) and Stony Brook University have unveiled plans for a major new development on Governors Island in New York City. The New York Climate Exchange also has ambitious sustainability features, including the ability to meet unique power and non-potable water needs.
The New York Climate Exchange is described as the first-of-its-kind international center for developing and deploying solutions to the global climate crisis. It provides vocational training, hosts public gatherings, and offers academic and community programs and hands-on learning opportunities.
Structurally, it will consist of attractive sloping pavilions and buildings constructed using sustainably sourced timber with a focus on energy efficiency and flood resistance. It will host laboratories, classroom spaces, exhibits, greenhouses and housing, and will be designed to weave into the island’s existing park spaces. It is also one of the first projects in the U.S. to achieve True Zero Waste green building certification, generating all of the electricity it needs from solar panels on the roof while generating all non-potable water from rainwater and recycled wastewater. meet your water needs. No figures are available on the capacity of the solar panels at this early stage, but they will be enough to generate surplus electricity that will then feed the New York City grid, he said, SOM.
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“The design of this new campus weaves the meandering Mass Timber Pavilion into the park’s rolling landscape and repurposes the historic buildings of Governors Island to address the climate crisis,” said Colin Coupe, design partner at SOM. “Together, these spaces will facilitate advances in climate research and pilot new technologies that can be deployed across cities and, ultimately, around the world.” will be introduced into the
The New York Climate Exchange is created in collaboration with Mathews Nielsen Landscape Architects, Buro Happold, Langan Engineering, and Governors Island Trust. No word yet on when construction will begin.
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