Cornell Tech
CAMPUS MASTERPLAN
Cornell Tech is establishing a new campus in Manhattan with a new program that seeks to bridge the gap between academia and real-world entrepre-neurship. This project tries to avoid the negative relationship of the tech industry with the city of San Francisco due to the perception that they are taking advantage of all the resources without giving back to the community. Challenging the traditional mode of the closed off, single-use campus, this project employs a horizontally stratified mixed-use typology, and opens up the ground floor to the public. The goal is to generate a sustained economic vitality and private market reaction that integrates this isolated island as a true neighborhood of the city rather than an exclusive campus.
The bottom layer accommodates student workshop-housing, amenities, and diverse businesses, along with parks and plazas to attract people from all over the city. The campus is suspended above the free ground plan, preserv-ing a secured access to intellectual property.
Vehicle capable of operating in both land and water. First utilized by Cornell University as public transit to connect its Roosevelt Island campus to Manhattan and Queens.
