The House at Cornell Tech

New York, United States, North America

Completed · Residential · Passive House Residential Tower · Continental · 2017

A 26-storey, ~270 ft residential tower with 352 apartments for student and faculty housing on Cornell Tech's Roosevelt Island campus, one of the tallest Passive House certified residential buildings at completion. Buro Happold delivered the MEP and Passive House strategy. Recognised at the 2021 CIBSE Building Performance Awards (Project of the Year, Public Use).

Innovation highlights

• Among tallest Passive House residential towers
• Highly insulated airtight prefabricated facade
• Centralised efficient services for 352 homes
• Very low heating/cooling demand

Innovations in the catalogue

• Passive House at High-Rise Scale
• Prefabricated High-Performance Facade Panels
• Centralised Heat-Recovery Ventilation for Apartments

Client / Developer

Cornell University / The Hudson Companies

Architect

Handel Architects

Engineer

Buro Happold

Type

Passive House Residential Tower

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