Yale Law School Auditorium & Library

New Haven, Connecticut

The Law School Auditorium, seating 550, is Yale’s largest classroom, used not only by the Law School but by Yale College, other Graduate Schools (Vince Scully’s lectures on the History of Architecture are held here) and by the administration for alumni gatherings. The restoration included new layouts to accommodate the handicapped in both location and types of seating, new seating and finishes, restoration of stained glass windows and lighting fixtures, custom lighting fixtures & woodwork and new A-V / media access and distribution as well as all new mechanical & electrical systems. All work for the auditorium was designed and executed within a seven month time frame.

The Law School Library project included removal of three floors of fixed book stacks and the insertion of an intermediate floor (all underground) to support two floors of compact shelving, one for long term storage of government documents, the other to be active shelving with work spaces, study carrels (both open and closed) as well as access to the university computer systems. The design required integration with connecting passages underground to adjacent projects in both the Law School and the Beinecke Library. A second project included an upgrade to the private study carrels for Fellows.

Services included architectural and interior design services with consultants for structural and MEP engineering.