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Yale University Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking

New Haven, CT, USA
Architect
Weiss Manfredi

The project is a new 12,200 sq ft building facilitating entrepreneurial pursuits, innovation, and interdisciplinary collaboration within the Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science. Located adjacent to Marcel Breuer’s Becton Center, the building offers a vibrant center for the newly imagined plaza around it, one that will nurture future innovators, leaders, and creators.

Front assisted Weiss Manfredi in developing the glass and metal facade systems and ovular skylight, and was engaged from design development through construction administration. The building features double height, frameless curved glass panels, which trace a sinusoidal curve along the building’s elliptical perimeter.

Within the glass walls are open and flexible workspaces, designed to facilitate spontaneous discussion and provide a link between public areas and adjacent instructional spaces. Both the building and the plaza renovation achieved LEED Gold certification.

Albert Vecerka / ESTO
Albert Vecerka / ESTO
Albert Vecerka / ESTO

The project is a new 12,200 sq ft building facilitating entrepreneurial pursuits, innovation, and interdisciplinary collaboration within the Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science. Located adjacent to Marcel Breuer’s Becton Center, the building offers a vibrant center for the newly imagined plaza around it, one that will nurture future innovators, leaders, and creators.

Front assisted Weiss Manfredi in developing the glass and metal facade systems and ovular skylight, and was engaged from design development through construction administration. The building features double height, frameless curved glass panels, which trace a sinusoidal curve along the building’s elliptical perimeter.

Within the glass walls are open and flexible workspaces, designed to facilitate spontaneous discussion and provide a link between public areas and adjacent instructional spaces. Both the building and the plaza renovation achieved LEED Gold certification.

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