Yale Building Project
2021 Residential Built
A familiar pitched-roof house is reshaped through a series of recessed spaces that connect everyday life to the surrounding landscape.
- Year
- 2021
- Location
- New Haven, Connecticut
- Typology
- Residential
- Discipline
- Architecture
- Status
- Built
- Institution
- Yale School of Architecture — Jim Vlock First Year Building Project
- Contribution
- Contributed to structural design development during the collaborative design phase. Participated in physical construction, including deck construction, welding metal components, and selected interior work.
- Collaborators
- Yale M.Arch I class of 2023
- Advisors
- Critics: Adam Hopfner, Beka Sturges, Alex Kruhly, Martha Foss
Drawing from New Haven's residential vernacular, the project begins with a recognizable house form and subtracts from it to create sheltered thresholds and intimate spaces. These recesses, described by the design team as chomps, establish moments of pause between the interior and the site.
The landscape strategy shapes a gradual transition from street to home. Meandering paths, planting, and outdoor decks create privacy while extending the living spaces outward. An upper-level terrace opens toward an existing mature maple tree, connecting the movement through the house to the surrounding canopy.
The house was designed and built collaboratively by the Yale M.Arch I class of 2023. Rogers contributed a site model and a drawing for the final presentation, and participated in the design and construction of the interior ceiling.