Yale School of Art — found spaces that create departmental identity

New Haven, CT
110,000 square feet
80,000 at 1156 Chapel Street
30,000 at 353 Crown Street
2000
Type: Academic / Arts / Adaptive Reuse
Theme: Transforming Old Buildings / Making & Learning

The building for Yale University’s School of Art and Iseman Theatre arts complex required a gut renovation to Louis I. Kahn’s Jewish Community Center of New Haven, as well as the design and construction of The Annex, a ground-up building connected by a courtyard to the existing structure. We carefully considered how to take spaces in the original building and turn them into hubs for specific arts disciplines.