Assignment 2 - Yale Art & Architecture Building

Site Plan

The building is located on Yales Campus in New Haven, Ct. It is surrounded by older traditional style architecture with most buildings being brick that are anywhere from one to four stories in height. The Art & Architecture building follows the setback line established by existing buildings helping to hold the street edge. At first glance the buidling doesn't seem to fit into the surrounding neighborhood, but upon closer inspection you realize that the Art Gallery by Louis Kahn is right across the street.

Plan View of the Campus area

When looking at the plan view you start to see how the surrounding building have a traditional feel by the roof outlines.

Facade Geometries

The building is comprised of rectangular shapes that interconnect with each other. The green represents the strong verticality of the building, the blue is showing the horizontal strips thatbraek through what would seem to be cube, and finally the orange shows the interconnection of the individual peices to create a whole.

Sections

The first section show the series of squares that make up the building. Each square is stacked upon the others to gradually create the a larger space. Notice how some of the spaces tend to intrude into others to intrupt the flow.

This section really starts to show the stacking effect in a more dramatic fashion, as well as the intrusion of spaces upon other spaces

Floor Plan

I could only find the First Floor plan. The program on this floor tends to be evenly broken down into public/private. There is a dynamic space where the exibits are, which are always changing due to people coming and going through the space as well as the changing exibits. the more static space to me would be where the classrooms are. The rest of the spaces are used for circulation and support.