Designing experience through architecture and environment:
Yale College // Analytic Model
Emmanuel Petit, instructor
Emmanuel Petit, instructor
Research and interpretation of the formal qualities of Paul Rudolph’s Yale Art and Architecture building. The analysis investigates the massing, tectonic, circulation and program concepts of the building; represent the results through models and drawings.
My analysis avoids the common “pinwheeling” interpretation of the Yale Art and Architecture building, and views the building as a series of individual floor plates layered around the central double-height spaces. The form of the building as whole is a concrete armature that connects the upper floors to the vertical piers, while supporting an open area below for the lower floors.
