© Lara Swimmer

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架构师提供的文本描述。中央公共设施厂越来越成为他们所服务的校园和社区的组成部分。在默认情况下，这些设施不再隐藏在链环围栏后面，消失在视线之外，也不再隐藏在意识之外。相反，像西校园实用工厂(WCup)这样的建筑展示了基础设施是如何变得更加明显、活跃和吸引人的一部分城市结构。

Text description provided by the architects. Central utility plants are becoming more integral to the campuses and communities they serve. No longer are these facilities by default hidden behind chain link fences, out of sight and out of mind. On the contrary, buildings like the West Campus Utility Plant (WCUP) demonstrate how infrastructure can become a much more visible, active and engaging part of the urban fabric.

 © Andrew Pogue

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WCup为华盛顿大学西雅图分校提供冷冻水和应急电源。已经为大学服务了100多年的现有中央电站已达到容量，无法扩展到为不断扩大的南、西校区2018年大学校园总体计划提出的4 000 000 SF新开发项目服务。WCup设施的开发是为了使UW能够在未来100年支持这一目标的增长。

The WCUP provides chilled water and emergency power to the University of Washington’s Seattle campus. The existing central utility plant, which has served the University for over 100 years, had reached capacity and was unable to expand to serve over 4,000,000 sf of new development proposed by the 2018 UW Campus Master Plan on the growing south and west campuses. The WCUP facility was developed to enable the UW to support this targeted growth for the next 100 years.

 © Andrew Pogue

安德鲁·波格

该项目提供了一个独特的机会，不仅通过减少新的校园能源基础设施对环境的影响，而且通过建筑物本身的设计传达了强有力的可持续性信息，从而推进了华盛顿大学的可持续发展使命。虽然大多数工业规模的基础设施隐藏在视线之外，公众无法进入，但WCup位于一个突出的校园门户。该设施的设计由米勒赫尔伙伴关系(Miller Hull Partnership，简称Miller Hull Partnership)牵头，使人们看不见的东西是可见的：通过提供进入过程的窗口，并将关键系统暴露在公众面前，我们所依赖的重要服务可以被观察和理解，而不是理所当然。

The project offered a unique opportunity to advance the University of Washington’s sustainability mission not only by reducing the environmental impact of new campus energy infrastructure but also by conveying a strong sustainability message through the design of the building itself. While most industrial scale infrastructure is hidden from view and inaccessible to the public, the WCUP is located at a prominent campus gateway. The facility’s design, led by The Miller Hull Partnership, makes the invisible visible: by providing windows into the process and exposing critical systems to public view, the important services that we all rely on can be observed and understood rather than taken for granted.

 © Andrew Pogue

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华盛顿大学校园可能是西雅图唯一一个可以从人行道上看到工业规模制冷机的城市地区，尽管这种设备的能见度本身就具有教育价值，但该大学也有兴趣利用该项目以一种具有影响力和激励行动的方式讲述他们致力于可持续发展的故事。简单地说：事实告诉我们，但强大的故事会引起共鸣。为了帮助讲述这些故事，安装在幕墙玻璃内部的一系列液晶显示器为学生制作与校园环境项目相关的内容提供了一个平台。虽然大楼发光的聚碳酸酯幕墙起到了吸引校园周围和更广泛社区游客的“磁石”作用，但步行街的屏幕就像一种“门户”，这是对大学环境管理的一种信息丰富的看法。

The University of Washington campus may be the only urban area in Seattle where industrial-scale chillers can be readily seen right from the sidewalk, and while the visibility of this equipment has an educational value in and of itself, the University was also interested in using the project to tell the story of their commitment to sustainability in a manner that would be impactful and inspire action. Simply put: facts inform, but powerful stories resonate. To help tell these stories, a series of LCD displays installed just inside the curtain wall glazing provide a platform for student-produced content related to environmental programs on campus. While the building’s glowing polycarbonate screen wall acts as a “magnet” that draws in visitors from around the campus and the broader community, the screens at the pedestrian level resemble a kind of “portal”, an information-rich view into the University’s stewardship of the environment.

 © Lara Swimmer

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WCup项目是华盛顿大学的第一个Envision黄金认证项目，也是美国第一个高级ED认证的建筑项目。Envision是专门为可持续基础设施项目设计的一个独立的第三方评级系统，其目的是对为可持续未来提供进展和贡献的基础设施项目进行评估、评分和给予承认。

The WCUP project is the first Envision Gold certified project at the University of Washington and the first Higher-Ed certified building project in the United States. Envision is an independent third party rating system designed specifically for sustainable infrastructure projects and was created to evaluate, grade and give recognition to infrastructure projects that provide progress and contributions for a sustainable future.

 © Lara Swimmer

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WCup使用的是渐进设计-建造合同结构，其中设计-建造团队主要是根据资格和方法选择，而不是设计/成本建议。这是该大学第一座采用这种交付方式完成的大楼。

The WCUP was delivered using the Progressive Design-Build contract structure where Design-Build team is selected based primarily on qualifications and approach rather than design/cost proposals. It was the first building at the University to be completed using this delivery method.