Yale University Art Gallery - Ceiling

The Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven was designed by the renowned architect, Louis Kahn. In many ways, the Yale Art Center was the catalyst for many of Kahn's ideas on materiality, structure and form. Through the manipulation of light and space, Kahn was able to create visually compelling spaces that change through the day. The waffle slab as seen in this collection is one of Kahn's creations in pushing materiality and technology in architecture, allowing it to be the ceiling of one floor and functionally be the floor of another room. This method of construction using hollow triangles effectively eliminates the need for a false ceiling.