Coastal research station
Faculty member Alan Organschi, along with a team of former students, has spent the past summer building a new coastal research station for the Peabody Museum of Natural History on Horse Island off the coast of Branford, Connecticut. The design of the structure taps industrial waste streams for raw material, deploys sustainably harvested timber, and explores methods of increasing the durability and repairability of building components, all in the service of testing theories of circular economy in the built environment. The building was prefabricated on Yale’s West Campus and assembled onsite on Horse Island.
Housing in New Haven
Despite the challenges posed by the global pandemic, the annual Jim Vlock First Year Building Project was completed on schedule in mid-October. Students designed the one-story, two-unit home, constructed in New Haven’s Newhallvilleneighborhood for client Columbus House, a local homelessness services provider. The house is crowned by a large green roof, supported by a sustainable timber structure, and surrounded by plentiful open space for residents.
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