Located 1.5 miles off the coast of Connecticut in the Long Island Sound, Horse Island is the largest and least developed of the Thimble Island archipelago. For decades, Horse Island has been managed by the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History as an ecological field station. In order to better serve Yale’s ongoing ecological research, and to increase the accessibility of Horse Island to the wider academic community, the design team collaborated with the Peabody Museum and Yale School of Architecture to design and build an off-grid Research Station that features a pavilion with covered patio spaces, a flexible teaching area able to be completely opened to the exterior, solar energy generation, rainwater collection and filtration, overnight accommodations, and secure storage for field research equipment.
Built by JIG.