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Assembly One Pavilion / Yale School ofArchitecture Students

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The Yale ‘Assembly One’ pavilion is the younger, smaller, more carefree sister to Yale’s

building project – a 40-year old tradition in which first-year students design and building a

house. It is the product of a seminar and design studio in which students focused on

alternative ways in which contemporary buildings can come together and the potential

architectural effects computational and material techniques can offer. The ‘Assembly One’

pavilion is designed to act as an information center for New Haven’s summer International

Festival of Arts and Ideas and therefore was developed with the following characteristics in

mind: dynamism, visual transparency and visual density.

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Dynamism: The structure is suited to a performance festival – solid and massive from one

angle, lightweight and almost entirely porous from another, it alternately hides and reveals

its contents.

Visual Transparency: Constructed from thin aluminum sheets, the pavilion opens up on

two sides for ventilation and security, focusing views toward the festival’s main stage.

Visual Density: Over 1000 panels create shifting effects of reflection and color as visitors

move around the pavilion, creating less of a timeless image of shelter than an unstable,

engaging heart of the festival.

“We treated the tenets of digital fabrication as basic assumptions – our ability to efficiently

produce variable and unique components and the cultural implications of moving beyond

standardized manufacturing. But, we were less concerned with the uniqueness of the

objects we created than on the novel types of tectonic expression they allowed.”

The Festival Pavilion was designed and built by Yale School of Architecture students.

Project Founders: David Bench, Zac Heaps, Jacqueline Ho, Eric Zahn

Project Managers: Jacqueline Ho, Amy Mielke

Design & Fabrication: John Taylor Bachman, Nicholas Hunt, Seema Kairam, John

Lacy, Veer Nanavatty

Design: Rob Bundy, Raven Hardison, Matt Hettler

Faculty advisor: Brennan Buck

Assistant: Teoman Ayas

Consultant: Matthew Clark of Arup, New York

Generous support was provided by Assa Abloy, the Yale Graduate and Professional

Student Senate, and the Yale School of Architecture. The Pavilion is on view on the New

Haven Green until the end of June.

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They actually did. The students built and designed the w hole thing.

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The seminar w as conceived by post-professional students, and opened to second and third

year M.ArchI students, as w ell.

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Unforgettable experience for f irst year students, I guess.

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It w asn’t f irst year student either. They w ere comprised of second and third year M.Arch I and II

students. If you actually read the article it says it w as a seminar that w as a “Sister” course to the f irst year

building project course.

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For the full story, check out our blog on Metropolis Point of View

http://w w w .metropolismag.com/pov/category/designing-and-building-a-pavilion

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I’m so tired of seeing stereotypical comments taking w eak jabs at projects on architecture

blogs. They all sound the same, w hine about trivialities and make young readers of architecture blogs

feel like the profession’s dialogue is overw helmed by bland, tired noise. How about some critical

comments?

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