Kroon Hall Floor Plan

A service zone for kroon hall and three neighbouring buildings is tucked under a green roof in a corner of the site.

Kroon hall floor plan.

Kroon hall school of forestry amp. Designed as yale s sustainable flagship the leed platinum certified kroon hall was named a top 10 green building by the aia committee on the environment. Chosen as a 2010 aia cote top ten green project the ambitious goals for kroon hall encompassed. Kroon hall home of yale university s school of forestry and environmental studies is a 56 467 square foot facility that is leed platinum certified from the usgbc and was honored this year by the american institute of architects and its committee on the environment as one of the 2010 cote top ten green projects.

Structural engineers mechanical. With the completion of kroon hall the most sustainable building on campus the university has taken concrete steps to achieve that goal. The stacking of the floors with a central staircase also facilitates natural air flow as do air plenum and multiple diffusers in the elevated floors. 195 prospect street between sage hall and osborn memorial laboratories.

Demolition and construction waste was recycled. The building s 218 foot long south wall maximizes solar heat gain in winter and natural lighting year round. Just four years ago yale president richard levin pledged to achieve a 43 percent reduction in yale s greenhouse gas emissions by 2020. Kroon hall school of forestry and environmental studies.

Leed rating leed platinum. The top floor is a cathedral space housing a conference center with large lecture hall classrooms and a cafe. Yale university campus map search buildings schools departments and more. Kroon hall s entire heating and cooling load is supplied by ground source heat pumps connected to four 450m deep boreholes while the pv array carries roughly 25 per cent of electrical loads.

The hall features two outdoor courtyards office space three classrooms a. Finally the kroon hall s design. Kroon hall is part of a larger plan to systematically transform the social and physical environment of the surrounding science neighborhood.