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A Study on the Spatial Configuration and its Characteristics of Yale Center for British Art  

Kim, Nak-Jung (건국대학교 건축전문대학원)
Chung, Tae-Yong (건국대학교 건축전문대학원)
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Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal / v.17, no.1, 2008 , pp. 69-76 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to analyze the interior characteristics of the Yale center for British art by Louis I. Kahn. As his last realized project, the Yale center for British art shows Kahn's latter architectural thoughts about exterior/interior, space/structure and theory/practice. Kahn arranged unit space(room) around two interior courts and laminated them vertically. This spatial configuration is the result of solving the urban context which needed the continuity of street and complicated program including art museum, retail shop, studio and library. Although Kahn adpted severe formal configuration, he added changes to spatial relation. The visualization of architectural system is realized by revealing the relation of the unit space and structure. And this emphasized the presence of the center. The emphasis of tectonic expression is also the characteristics of interior in that structure is the logical part of whole building system rather than concealing object for the exterior of buildings. In the Yale center for British art, interior characteristics are summarized as spatial configuration based on the relation between unit space and two courts, the visualization of structural order, and the relationship between structure and light.
Keywords
Room; Spatial configuration;
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