A groundbreaking on Oct. 11 kicked off a project aiming to construct the largest Living Building Challenge-certified residence on a university campus. The Living Village, a 45,000 sf home for Yale University Divinity School graduate students, “will make an ecological statement about the need to build in harmony with the natural world while training students to become ‘apostles of the environment’,” according to Bruner/Cott, which is leading the design team that includes Höweler + Yoon Architecture and Andropogon Associates.
Yale Divinity School (YDS) will hold a groundbreaking ceremony on Oct. 11 for The Living Village, a new residence hall specifically designed around the principles of environmental sustainability.
Yale Divinity School Breaking Ground on First-of-its-Kind Zero-Carbon Residence Hall streetinsider.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from streetinsider.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
September 6, 2023 New Haven, Conn. Yale Divinity School (YDS) will break ground on Wednesday, Oct. 11, on a building that is unprecedented in American higher education: a living-building residence hall that will house students in a way that gives back to the environment more than it takes. Living Village groundbreaking is a featured part of Convocation 2023: Learn more