Yale, assembly one, David Bench, John Taylor Bachman, Rob Bundy, Raven Hardison, Zac Heaps, Matt Hettler, Jacqueline Ho, Nicholas Hunt, Seema Kairam, John Lacy, Amy Mielke,Veer Nanavatty, Eric Zahn, aluminum, aluminum panels, festival, computational design

Assembly One Pavilion – the two-color aluminum structure, which can seem as a lattice configuration or as a solid curvy mass depending on the viewer’s vantage point, is an outcome of an old Yale tradition in which students in the school’s post-professional master’s program design and construct an information center for the International Festival of Arts & Ideas. It is the younger, smaller, more carefree sister to Yale’s Building Project — the 40-year-old tradition in which first-year students design and build a house. The project offers a change to work at full scale with real architectural materials, marshal the organizational effort needed to realize a complex building, work with clients and consultants, engage with legal and public processes, and create a structure to be inhabited and experienced by thousands of people each year.

The 300-square-foot pavilion will serve as the hub of the festival and it will be located on the Church Street side of the Lower Green, south of Elm Street, and the structure can easily be disassembled, stored and reassembled each year.

In words of one student – participant in the project, the students have created an engaging heart for the Festival made from over 1,000 aluminum panels, which create shifting effects of reflection and color as visitors move around it. Solid and massive from one angle, lightweight and almost entirely porous from another, the pavilion alternately hides and reveals its contents.

The festival pavilion was designed and built by Yale School of Architecture students David Bench, John Taylor Bachman, Rob Bundy, Raven Hardison, Zac Heaps, Matt Hettler, Jacqueline Ho, Nicholas Hunt, Seema Kairam, John Lacy, Amy Mielke,Veer Nanavatty, and Eric Zahn.

Yale, assembly one, David Bench, John Taylor Bachman, Rob Bundy, Raven Hardison, Zac Heaps, Matt Hettler, Jacqueline Ho, Nicholas Hunt, Seema Kairam, John Lacy, Amy Mielke,Veer Nanavatty, Eric Zahn, aluminum, aluminum panels, festival, computational design

Yale, assembly one, David Bench, John Taylor Bachman, Rob Bundy, Raven Hardison, Zac Heaps, Matt Hettler, Jacqueline Ho, Nicholas Hunt, Seema Kairam, John Lacy, Amy Mielke,Veer Nanavatty, Eric Zahn, aluminum, aluminum panels, festival, computational design

Yale, assembly one, David Bench, John Taylor Bachman, Rob Bundy, Raven Hardison, Zac Heaps, Matt Hettler, Jacqueline Ho, Nicholas Hunt, Seema Kairam, John Lacy, Amy Mielke,Veer Nanavatty, Eric Zahn, aluminum, aluminum panels, festival, computational design

Yale, assembly one, David Bench, John Taylor Bachman, Rob Bundy, Raven Hardison, Zac Heaps, Matt Hettler, Jacqueline Ho, Nicholas Hunt, Seema Kairam, John Lacy, Amy Mielke,Veer Nanavatty, Eric Zahn, aluminum, aluminum panels, festival, computational design

Yale, assembly one, David Bench, John Taylor Bachman, Rob Bundy, Raven Hardison, Zac Heaps, Matt Hettler, Jacqueline Ho, Nicholas Hunt, Seema Kairam, John Lacy, Amy Mielke,Veer Nanavatty, Eric Zahn, aluminum, aluminum panels, festival, computational design

Yale, assembly one, David Bench, John Taylor Bachman, Rob Bundy, Raven Hardison, Zac Heaps, Matt Hettler, Jacqueline Ho, Nicholas Hunt, Seema Kairam, John Lacy, Amy Mielke,Veer Nanavatty, Eric Zahn, aluminum, aluminum panels, festival, computational design

Yale, assembly one, David Bench, John Taylor Bachman, Rob Bundy, Raven Hardison, Zac Heaps, Matt Hettler, Jacqueline Ho, Nicholas Hunt, Seema Kairam, John Lacy, Amy Mielke,Veer Nanavatty, Eric Zahn, aluminum, aluminum panels, festival, computational design

 

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