{"id":24150,"date":"2021-05-05T00:35:36","date_gmt":"2021-05-04T12:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yaketyyak.nzstaging.com\/2021\/05\/a-curved-innovative-thinking-centre-for-yale-university\/"},"modified":"2022-12-12T21:10:34","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T08:10:34","slug":"a-curved-innovative-thinking-centre-for-yale-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yaketyyakfurniture.com\/en_nz\/2021\/05\/a-curved-innovative-thinking-centre-for-yale-university\/","title":{"rendered":"A curved Innovative Thinking Centre for Yale University"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"l-section wpb_row height_medium\"><div class=\"l-section-h i-cf\"><div class=\"g-cols vc_row via_flex valign_top type_default stacking_default\"><div class=\"vc_col-sm-12 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><div class=\"wpb_text_column\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><div class=\"wpb_text_column \">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<p>The Yale University Center for Innovative Thinking by architecture studio Weiss\/Manfredi is an elliptical glass pavilion for students on the New Haven campus. New York City-based Weiss\/Manfredi designed the two-storey pavilion to stand out from the brutalist and gothic-style buildings of the historic Yale University.<\/p>\n<p>The pavilion was built on top of an existing laboratory in a plaza surrounded by the Becton Center, Dunham Labs and the Sheffield Sterling Strathcona Building. Set near the middle of the courtyard it has a concrete base and slim steel columns around the perimeter.<\/p>\n<p>It is enclosed by glazed exterior walls, which are 22-feet high (6.7 metres) and have a gentle rippling shape. \u201cThe glass skin\u2019s reflective and transparent quality allows the pavilion to act as a chameleon, mirroring the surroundings and campus activity by day and creating a destination imbued with luminosity at night,\u201d said Weiss\/Manfredi.<\/p>\n<p>Set in a shady corner of the campus, the glass pavilion has an automated curtain that can unfurl around the perimeter when required. Open 24 hours a day, the pavilion was designed to be a \u201ccollective living room\u201d for Yale students.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe centre will bring together students from diverse disciplines to generate innovative solutions to real-world problems,\u201d explained the studio. \u201cThe program, unique to the university, is based around team workshops and courses that allow students to bring their ideas to fruition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Desks, chairs and whiteboards are all set on wheels so they can be rolled around the smooth tiled floor to create flexible workstations for collaborative work. There are a couple of separate rooms for meetings and a conference room at one end of the building. A curving mezzanine that overlooks the lower floor is screened by more glass and contains comfy chairs so it can be used as a breakout space.<\/p>\n<p>The pavilion has a green roof and the previously paved plaza surrounding it has been turned into a landscaped garden complete with storm retention tanks that collect runoff for watering the plants. Weiss\/Manfredi also renovated some of the laboratory spaces below the Yale University Center for Innovative Thinking as part of the project.<\/p>\n<p>Also on the campus, Yale\u2019s student radio station has recently been revamped by architecture studio Forma, who used bright orange walls and floors to create an eye-popping studio.<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 1989 by Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi, Weiss\/Manfredi\u2019s projects include a competition-winning plan to redevelop the La Brea Tar Pits and a brick and glass architecture school for Kent State University in Ohio.<\/p>\n<p><em>YAKETY YAK Blog, mostly about cool libraries, furniture and design \u2013 keeping you abreast of our world. (Source: DeZeen. 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