YALE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SERVICES

This proposal for a new Health Services facility serving the Yale campus occupies a peripheral path between the Engineering Hill area and the main (old) portion of campus, immediately adjacent to the walled Grove Street Cemetery. The concept expands upon two typologies that define Yale’s built fabric: the collegiate Gothic courtyard building and the modernist “veiled box” typified by Gordon Bunshaft’s iconic Beinecke Rare Book Library and Louis Kahn’s Center for British Art.

The scheme transforms its peripheral setting, sheltering visitors in a new courtyard ringed by the clinic and the North wall of Grove Street Cemetery. Transparent and translucent walls clad the public functions housed on the first floor of the building, revealing a 24-hour nexus of activity to pedestrian traffic through the site. The more private clinics float overhead, clad in the much more densely articulated second and third levels.

New Haven, Connecticut USA

Invited Competition (Finalist)