New York-based Ennead Architects' new Natural History Museum of Utah, on the rugged edge of Salt Lake City. The $103 million, 163,000 sq ft Rio Tinto Center, as the building is called, is located in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains' Wasatch Range

位于纽约的Ennead建筑公司在盐湖城崎岖的边缘，描述了犹他州新的自然历史博物馆。这是一个亮点-在设计上：这座名为“洛基山脉山麓”(Wasatch Range)的建筑占地1.03亿美元，占地16.3万平方英尺(Rio Tinto Center)。建筑师托德·斯利曼(Todd Schliemann)在拿起笔之前对该州进行了广泛的考察，他重申了该地区地形的赤裸裸之美-这是世界上独一无二的。博物馆以粗犷典雅的美学语言，提供了研究和展览的空间，以及-至关重要的是-在自然界中定位游客，并为观察它提供便利。这座建筑坐落在史前的伯纳维尔湖的海岸线之上，沿着这片土地缓缓而下，它的峭壁小心地在斜坡上行走，同时也发挥着一种威严的构造运动。该设计的有机特性，借鉴了元素自然景观，有效地加强了施利曼的材料调色板：板式混凝土底座和大约42，000平方英尺的立缝铜板，一种皮肤应用在横向带状表现分层，丰富的山岩。在大楼内，设计中心围绕着一个名为“峡谷”的空间政变剧院，这是一个60英尺高的中庭空间，阳光充足，流线型走道架起了桥梁。浇筑的混凝土和抛光的石膏形式让人联想到犹他州大盆地的天然围护物的包围-而不是一点吓人-的壮观。除了将博物馆的“经验性”北翼(致力于研究、保护、管理和储存超过120万件物品和标本)和“解释性”的南侧(充满展览空间)分开外，峡谷还作为一个社交空间提供服务。你可以在那里举行音乐会、会议、聚会，或者结婚。在这方面，“他补充说，”这座建筑可以产生自己的“自然历史”-只是在一定程度上是在开玩笑。“

The structure, perched above what had been the shoreline of the prehistoric Lake Bonneville, steps down the site, its ledges riding the slope discreetly while also exerting a commanding tectonic presence

With an aesthetic language of rugged elegance, the museum provides research and exhibition space, as well as - crucially - locating visitors within the natural world, and facilitating observation of it

Inside the building, the design centres around a spatial coup de theatre called 'the Canyon', a 60-ft-high atrium space, flooded with sunlight and bridged by circulation walkways

The poured-in-place concrete and polished plaster forms are evocative of the enveloping - and not a little intimidating - grandeur of the natural enclosures found throughout Utah's Great Basin

In addition to separating the museum's 'empirical' north wing (devoted to research and conservation, administration, and storage of over 1.2 million objects and specimens) and 'interpretive' south side (filled with galleries and exhibition spaces), the Canyon serves, says Schliemann, as a social space

The museum building essentially restates the stark beauty of the region's topography - 'which is like no other in the world,' says project architect Todd Schliemann

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