Pelli Clarke Pelli
Design Architect

Freelon
Lab Planner/Interior Architect

Kendall Heaton
Architect of Record

The Yale Biology Building (YBB) will house numerous functions associated with the biology departments at Yale University.  The Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology (MCDB) department will be the primary occupant; however, the facility will also provide space for the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EEB) department and the Yale Animal Resources Center (YARC).  In addition to these functions, the facility will provide the northeast quadrant of Science Hill with an underground service node providing, loading dock facilities for YBB, Gibbs, Kline Geology Lab and the Peabody Museum.

The biology-based research labs have been designed for maximum flexibility to accommodate the ebb and flow of the sizes of the faculty research groups within the MCDB department; hence large open labs were preferred for this reason.  The support labs have been designed to accommodate the unique aspects of each research while minimizing the number of enclosed rooms.  The atrium will serve as a social center for the sciences located along Whitney Avenue and will connected to the courtyard at the top of Science Hill with a bridge.  A “coffee shop” will be provided on the third level of atrium providing easy access for researchers from other buildings on top of the hill to socialize with the occupants of YBB.

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