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Columbia University Retrofit
Columbia University Retrofit
New York, NY, United States
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Columbia University Retrofit
New York, NY, United States
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2023
The Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation occupies original McKim, Mead & White buildings on a campus that is both historic and intensely urban. As the school adapted and grew, it faced a distinct set of spatial constraints: how to support contemporary academic life within a dense, landmark institutional fabric.
The retrofit established a framework for the continual use and re-use of GSAPP’s physical plant, updating and renegotiating the spatial needs of more than 500 students, faculty, visiting lecturers, administrators, and staff. The work considered potential expansions as well as ongoing retrofits to studios, offices, galleries, classrooms, lecture halls, and social spaces.
Projects included the transformation of a circulation landing into a reading room; the creation of the first gender-neutral restroom facilities on Columbia’s campus; a complete overhaul of existing studios; and the conversion of former back-of-house areas into new studios and classrooms. Faculty and administrative offices were updated, a corridor was reimagined as a gallery space, and lighting throughout the facilities was upgraded to current LED standards.
The retrofit established a framework for the continual use and re-use of GSAPP’s physical plant, updating and renegotiating the spatial needs of more than 500 students, faculty, visiting lecturers, administrators, and staff. The work considered potential expansions as well as ongoing retrofits to studios, offices, galleries, classrooms, lecture halls, and social spaces.
Projects included the transformation of a circulation landing into a reading room; the creation of the first gender-neutral restroom facilities on Columbia’s campus; a complete overhaul of existing studios; and the conversion of former back-of-house areas into new studios and classrooms. Faculty and administrative offices were updated, a corridor was reimagined as a gallery space, and lighting throughout the facilities was upgraded to current LED standards.
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