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663 South Cooper
663 South Cooper
Memphis, TN, United States
Finalist, 2023 A+Awards, Concepts - Architecture +Renovation
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663 South Cooper
Memphis, TN, United States
Finalist, 2023 A+Awards, Concepts - Architecture +Renovation
Project Featured on Nov 06, 2023
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Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2019
SIZE
5000 sqft - 10,000 sqft
BUDGET
$1M - 5M
The project was driven by a single fundamental question - how can we as a profession reimagine Middle America’s aging commercial corridor building stock as a conduit for 21st century community building. The design team knew that to meet 2050 emission targets 75% of the existing buildings needed to be renovated and reinvented. When we outgrew our existing space in 2016, we embraced the opportunity to explore scalable solutions to this challenge while contributing to resilient communities that connect people through design excellence. Completed in November 2019, the project demonstrates that reinventing, rather than inventing, through a rigorous progressive design and environmentally responsive ethos, can yield successful results by achieving performance-based carbon neutrality with conventional resources.
Located in Memphis, Tennessee on a shared site, the project demonstrates “how” by devising three sub-projects: repurpose a 1957 building of 7,444 sf into a progressive, environmentally responsible office (663 South Cooper) by becoming carbon neutral; repurpose the adjacent 1957 building of 3,400 sf into a progressive, environmentally responsible office that would demonstrate conventional baseline standards for analytical performance comparison; and provide an economically viable model for reinventing similarly aged buildings into a Carbon Neutral Corridor that connects people, embraces design excellence, and combats climate change. Resiliency was also critical, mitigating heightened risks for seismic activity, severe weather, a hot-humid climate and its location above the Mississippi River Valley alluvial aquifer - the primary source for freshwater and 90% of the region’s agricultural pumped irrigation. The project remains active as a research site, generating data that is shared and applied across project scales and typologies encouraging an actionable, national dialogue among public and practice-based communities. The project is the world’s first dual-certified Zero Energy and Zero Carbon renovated building by the International Living Future Institute and features a net measured EUI of -1.3.
Located in Memphis, Tennessee on a shared site, the project demonstrates “how” by devising three sub-projects: repurpose a 1957 building of 7,444 sf into a progressive, environmentally responsible office (663 South Cooper) by becoming carbon neutral; repurpose the adjacent 1957 building of 3,400 sf into a progressive, environmentally responsible office that would demonstrate conventional baseline standards for analytical performance comparison; and provide an economically viable model for reinventing similarly aged buildings into a Carbon Neutral Corridor that connects people, embraces design excellence, and combats climate change. Resiliency was also critical, mitigating heightened risks for seismic activity, severe weather, a hot-humid climate and its location above the Mississippi River Valley alluvial aquifer - the primary source for freshwater and 90% of the region’s agricultural pumped irrigation. The project remains active as a research site, generating data that is shared and applied across project scales and typologies encouraging an actionable, national dialogue among public and practice-based communities. The project is the world’s first dual-certified Zero Energy and Zero Carbon renovated building by the International Living Future Institute and features a net measured EUI of -1.3.
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