New vitality for aging buildings: Adaptive reuse strategies for new campus priorities

The transformation of two mid-century buildings on Yale’s Science Campus serves as a case study in overcoming legacy facility limitations to advance high-priority campus initiatives and rejuvenate user communities. Presenters identify key success factors for identifying space and program alignment opportunities and maximizing the impact of available capital for administrative, teaching, and science initiatives. They detail stakeholder engagement models that drive optimum design decisions and deliver on flexibility of use, vitality, and sustainability goals. They illustrate the results achieved in terms of recruitment capability, interaction, community building, and engagement.