Morse and Ezra Stiles Residential Colleges

New Haven, CT, United States

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Morse and Ezra Stiles Residential Colleges

New Haven, CT, United States

Firm

KieranTimberlake

Type

Residential › Student Housing
Hospitality + Sport › Restaurant
Educational › University Library

STATUS

Built

YEAR

2011

SIZE

100,000 sqft - 300,000 sqft

Photos

Peter Aaron/OTTO (3), Richard Barnes / OTTO (2)

Our renovations at Morse and Stiles represent a conversation with a respected predecessor, architect Eero Saarinen, who designed the buildings in the late 1950s at Yale University. Our work here was subtle and surgical, addressing student dissatisfaction with the housing dynamic composed largely of stand-alone single rooms, and the lack of activity space and green landscape. We transformed single rooms into suites and added below-ground student life space, made inviting and light-filled through skylights. We wove landscape through the architecture, bringing water and greenery to sunken courtyards and a waterfall and terrace that extends the dining hall into the courtyard.