Color rendering of StuyTown from above, highlighting the planted roof of the energy building and adjacent landscaped lawn contrasted against the surrounding brick high-rises and streets.

Ecosystem – Stuytown CHP

New York, NY
At Stuyvesant Town—one of the country’s largest residential communities—the new energy building consolidates heating and power infrastructure into a single, efficient cogeneration hub. In partnership with an energy services company, the project introduces a combined heat and power (CHP) plant sized to serve the campus, capturing waste heat from electricity production to provide space heating…
Oblique aerial rendering looking down at the energy building’s sedum roof plane, reading as a bright green rectangle between brick towers and the Avenue C sidewalk below.
Aerial view of the StuyTown energy building as a long, light-colored bar nestled between red-brick residential towers, with Avenue C and parked cars running along its eastern edge.

In partnership with an energy services company, the project introduces a combined heat and power (CHP) plant sized to serve the campus, capturing waste heat from electricity production to provide space heating and domestic hot water.

Campus-side view of the StuyTown energy building, a low white volume with louvered openings and a sloped vegetated roof, sitting behind a simple metal railing and lawn.

The work replaces costly district steam with on-site boilers and base electrical generation, significantly reducing operating costs while adding the ability to support the community with emergency power during outages like those experienced after Hurricane Sandy. Steam system optimization across the development improves tenant comfort, while the new enclosure—a low, precise volume threaded between existing brick towers—treats major infrastructure as an integrated part of the landscape rather than a back-of-house leftover.

Closer street-side photo of the energy building’s gable-like end wall, with a tall louvered opening and trees casting shadows across the white cladding.
Angled street view of the energy building with its white panelized façade hovering above the brick garage base, framed by trees and the surrounding high-rise apartments.
Street-level view along Avenue C with the white metal-clad energy building and its horizontal louvers set into a base of existing red-brick walls beneath tall residential towers.

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