PRESENTATION
Architectural design and energy efficiency features
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3 min
Paul Stanbridge from Foster + Partners presents the architectural design and energy efficiency features of the proposed MSK Pavilion.
- The building is designed to be noble, elegant, and timeless, fitting into the context of the Upper East Side
- The facade expresses the structure with vertical column lines and floor plates for texture
- The building achieves an energy use intensity rating of 125 kbtu per square foot, making it one of the best-performing hospital envelopes in the country
- The design includes public spaces, landscaped gardens, and an internal drop-off area to minimize traffic disruptions
Paul Stanbridge
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Thank you, Rob.
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Again, I'm Paul Stanbridge.
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I'm with Foster And Partners.
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I'm one of the architects working on the project in conjunction with Cannon and AI architects We have 3 renderings to show you today.
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Next slide, please.
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So here we have a skyline view taken from the East River looking west.
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You can see how the Pavilion as an architectural form.
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Fits into the context of the upper east side and is juxtaposed to the midtown skyscrapers beyond into the left.
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We're really trying to create something that is noble and elegant and timeless and that changes with the daylighting conditions over the course of the day.
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We do not wanna create a loud building.
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And in fact, as a team, we refer to it as a machine for healing that's been designed from the inside out, rightsizing all of the clinical support spaces, the patient rooms, and the operating theaters.
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We've elected to express the structure and building.
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You'll see it.
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That a little more in the next slide if you could change.
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So you can see the vertical column lines on the facade as well as the lines of the floor plates give it a bit of texture to avoid a kind of sheer plain on each building elevation.
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And it's worth noting because we're extremely proud of it that the characteristics of the cladding also goes a very long way to reducing the energy use in the building.
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We're achieving an energy use intensity rating of a 125 kbtu per square foot, which likely makes us the best performing hospital envelope in the country.
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In contrast, recent buildings on the upper east side that are also hospitals are usually in the 200 to 250 kbtu range.
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So we're about half of that.
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And again, we're really proud of that fact.
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And on this slide, I just wanna call your attention to the bridge in the upper right corner.
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It's this is the base of the building.
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It's important to stress that the new pavilion project cannot be a standalone building.
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It's really a part of the larger organism of the main campus.
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And because of that, the bridge and the connection below grade, we're able to both leverage and expand on the capacities that exist both in Memorial Hospital and in the Rockefeller Research Laboratory laboratories.
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At the lower two floors, we've really pulled the facade in from the property line to allow us to give space back to the public realm where we've created planted and landscape gardens.
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We're trying to create a very serene environment for all patients and guests arriving on-site as well as building staff and to create an engaging streetscape on York Avenue.
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Next slide, please.
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So as you move forward towards the entry of the building, which is what is shown here, Again, we've really compressed the program on the ground floor so that we can maximize the amount of public space.
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In this view, you'll see benches for public and patients and guests to sit on that have been designed to the pops standards as well as some of the landscape elements.
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And if you look in the far background, there's an opportunity for introducing artwork potentially on the core.
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And then, slightly in front of that, as a part of our internal drop off drive through where we bring anyone arriving on-site via car, onto the site to exchange their car with a valet, and that's intended to really minimize any traffic disruptions around on the major roads around the building.
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And with that, I'm gonna turn it over to Shelly.