Campus Commons, SUNY at New Paltz / ikon.5 architects

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  • Architects: ikon.5 architects
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  12000 ft²
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2010
  • Photographs
    Photographs:Peter Mauss/Esto
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  Armstrong Flooring, Benjamin Moore, Creative Materials, Herman Miller, Knoll International, Lees Carpets, Versico, YKK AP

Text description provided by the architects. The Campus Commons at the State University of New York, designed by ikon.5 architects, is a steel and glass winter garden addition to an existing 1970 student union building. The Campus Commons is filled and spanned over an existing underutilized exterior courtyard, transforming the exterior space into a vibrant interior university living room. The Campus Commons houses a large space for informal gathering, multi-purpose meeting rooms, food court, student ID offices, bookstore, entertainment center, and meeting rooms. The design creates an inspiring, institutionally functional appearance at the gateway of the university.

Campus Commons, SUNY at New Paltz / ikon.5 architects - Windows, Facade
© Peter Mauss/Esto

Inspired by the regional landscape of the Catskill Mountains, the form and shape of the Commons is abstracted from the Shawagunk ridge, a  local internationally known rock climbing palisade that can be seen from the site and is a unique and special physical characteristic of the University's location. In order to span over the existing courtyard with a column free enclosure for future flexibility, ikon.5 designed a structural tube stress skin system that created the angular forms of the pavilion that metaphorically references the Shawagunk ridge.

Campus Commons, SUNY at New Paltz / ikon.5 architects - Windows, Facade
© Peter Mauss/Esto

Uniform 4 inch square structural tubes were fabricated in large planar sections, and erected on site like a giant origami assembly and sprayed with intumescent paint to achieve the require fire rating. The erection of the entire enclosure was complete in less than two weeks.

Campus Commons, SUNY at New Paltz / ikon.5 architects - Table, Chair
© Peter Mauss/Esto

In order to resist the dead load and wind uplift on the roof, a 1" diameter stainless steel cable with 2" down rods were utilized to transform the stress skin on the horizontal roof plane into a truss. Ceramic fritted glass was placed on top of the stress skin to create the enclosure. The pattern of the ceramic frit is an abstracted digitized version of of the tectonic plates of the Shawangunks.

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© Peter Mauss/Esto

The project creates an exciting Campus Commons as a steel and glass palisade set between two existing concrete brutalist buildings that transforms the entry gateway experience to the SUNY at new Palz with structural expressiveness.

Campus Commons, SUNY at New Paltz / ikon.5 architects - Windows, Facade
© Peter Mauss/Esto

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Address:New Paltz, NY 12561, United States

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Cite: "Campus Commons, SUNY at New Paltz / ikon.5 architects" 13 Aug 2011. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/158728/campus-commons-suny-at-new-paltz-ikon-5-architects> ISSN 0719-8884

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