架构师提供的文本描述。WORKAC已经在皇后区的KewGardensHills完成了新的分支图书馆。这座建筑已经建造了很长一段时间了。该图书馆最初是由纽约皇后区图书馆于2008年通过纽约设计和建设部(Department Of Design And Construction)委托开发的，是在DDC的“设计建筑卓越计划”下宣布的首批项目之一。人们期待已久的图书馆于2017年9月6日向公众开放。

Text description provided by the architects. WORKac has completed its new branch library in Kew Gardens Hills, Queens. The building has been a long time in the making. Initially commissioned by Queens Library through NYC’s Department of Design and Construction in 2008, the library was among the first bevy of projects announced under DDC’s Design + Construction Excellence Program, which since 2005 has directed selected civic projects to leading design firms. The much-awaited library opened to the public on September 6, 2017.

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该图书馆已经是Kew花园山庄社区中的一个重要机构，它拥有全国范围内最好的参观和流通数字。社区成员的专门宣传对于支持为图书馆提供所需设施并使其具有符合机构重要性的实体存在的设计至关重要。

The library was already a key institution in the diverse community of Kew Gardens Hills, and it boasts some of the best attendance and circulation figures of any library nationwide. Community members’ dedicated advocacy was pivotal in supporting a design that has provided the library with needed facilities and has given it a physical presence in keeping with institution’s importance. 

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这个项目始于1966年林赛图书馆的翻修和3000平方英尺的扩建.它的卷在已完成的库中仍然可见。然而，结构升级和新的内部细节几乎都取代了原有的建筑，新的10，000平方英尺的空间。

The project began as the renovation and 3,000-square-foot expansion of an existing Lindsey library from 1966. Its volume is still visible in the completed library. However, structural upgrades and new interior detailing have all but replaced the preexisting building with a new 10,000-square-foot space. 

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新设计的重点是图书馆周边的公共空间，占据了既有建筑的足迹和人行道之间的挫折。以绿色屋顶为上限，这一周界将图书馆后面的现有花园连接起来，形成一个连续的绿色循环。在图书馆内部，周边区域被设想成一个开放的空间，供图书馆的每个不同的用户群体使用：成人、青少年、儿童和工作人员。

The focal point of the new design is the public space along the library’s perimeter, occupying the setback between the preexisting building’s footprint and the sidewalk. Capped by a green roof, this perimeter zone joins existing gardens around the library’s back sides to form a continuous loop of green. Inside, the perimeter zone is conceived as a band of open rooms to be used by each of the library’s different user groups: adults, teens, children and staff. 

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新的̧ADE是一个物理的和隐喻的提升图书馆的外墙，以广播图书馆的活动到外面。在现场最公共的角落，屋顶达到了巨大的规模。儿童拐角处的第二个较小的山峰向南提供了儿童大小的景观。在这两个高峰之间，façade向下倾斜，以提供工作人员的隐私和后面的图书掉落区。入口处的façade的部分折叠在街道上，形成一个遮阳篷-让人想起书中折叠的一页。在北面，façade再次下降，为一个青少年学习区提供了隐私，同时也弥合了图书馆与其居住环境之间的规模差异。

The new façade is a physical and metaphoric lifting up of the library’s exterior walls in order to broadcast the activities of the library to the outside. At the site’s most public corner, the roof reaches monumental scale. A second, smaller peak at the children’s corner provides child-sized views to the south. Between these two peaks, the façade dips down to provide privacy at the staff and book drop areas behind. The section of the façade at the entrance folds out over the street to make an awning— reminiscent of a folded page in a book. On the north side, the façade descends again, providing privacy for a teen study area while also bridging the difference in scale between the library and its residential surroundings. 

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FAÇADE是由自定义玻璃纤维增强混凝土面板制成.他们的涟漪，窗帘一样的垂直褶皱模式创造了光和影子的发挥，并软化了主要的玻璃外观。在下面，大的外部窗户提供直接的自然光，而向南和向东的牧师窗提供间接的光，从凸起的立面的暴露混凝土上反射出来。不仅表现力和功能，而且结构，这混凝土带作为一个200英尺长的梁支持绿色屋顶，而不中断开放的内部。两根柱子是这条梁的唯一支撑。

The façade is made from custom glass fiber–reinforced concrete panels. Their rippled, curtain-like pattern of vertical folds creates a play of light and shadow and softens the primarily glassy exterior. Beneath, large exterior windows provide direct natural light, while south- and east-facing clerestory windows provide indirect light that bounces off of the exposed concrete of the lifted facade. Not only expressive and functional but also structural, this concrete band acts as a 200-foot-long beam to support the green roof without interrupting the open interior. Two columns are the only supports for this beam. 

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Architects WORKac

Location 72-33 Vleigh Pl, Flushing, NY 11367, United States

Architects in Charge Dan Wood, Amale Andraos

Area 3000.0 ft2

Project Year 2017

Photographs Bruce Damonte

Category Library

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