10/WAVE 2014/YALE WAVE Museum is a proposal which seeks to redesign a currently sorely underutilized portion of Yale campus. Opposite of Cross Campus, which flows out from Sterling Memorial Library, open greens are cut short by a disorganized block consisted of a scattering of Yale and nonYale affiliated buildings in mess of scales and materials bounding a paved parking lot. The first step reorganizes the block with a new masterplan to densify and liven the street edges. The northeast corner is redeveloped to continue the length of pedestrian friendly restaurants and shops along the street, while the southeast corner makes way for larger Yale development. The swath of parking which occupies the center, along with flanking buildings, has been excised to make room for the heart of this proposal.
WAVE is the evolution of Yale’s Music Instrument collection from a depository into a museum. Working with collections curators, it was determined that an interactive and open display, with space for the performance of select instruments, would be necessary. WAVE organizes the program in two strips. The rolling field, playing off the Cross Campus green, not only serves as a continuation of the park, but as it rises gently, houses a performance space underneath the hill while terminating in the swell of an amphitheater. The flowing wave along the hill, which switches from façade to roof, shields the collections within while revealing, at moments, the folds and swirls of circulation.
WAVE Museum has been selected for the H.I. Feldman Prize Nomination 2015 for the best solution to an architectural problem John Patkau Advanced Studio
facade to roof /03 wave structure
instrument/manuscript /02 collections
greens to amphiteater /01 + admin building