St. Patricks Centre McCabe Architects

2017-06-10 05:00

架构师提供的文本描述。简报是为位于多尼格尔镇圣帕特里克教堂内的一个牧师中心编写的。多年来，教会教育方案、咨询和会议在当地学校、教区房舍和整个教区的旅馆举行。圣帕特里克中心旨在巩固这些精神、教育和咨询活动，并满足聚在一起庆祝和丧亲的教区居民的社会需要。

Text description provided by the architects. The brief was for a Pastoral Centre situated within the grounds of St. Patrick’s Church, Donegal Town. For years, church educational programmes, counselling and meetings were held in local schools, the parochial house and hotels throughout the parish. St. Patrick’s Centre was designed to consolidate these spiritual, educational and counselling activities and to meet the social needs of parishioners coming together for celebration and bereavement.

高架在城镇繁忙的主街之上，宁静的地点容纳圣帕特里克教堂，前牧师的房子，教区的房子和广阔的斜坡花园。圣帕特里克教堂(1935年)，被称为四大师纪念教会。这座教堂由巴尼斯莫尔粉红色花岗岩和芒查尔斯砂岩建造，风格为新爱尔兰罗马风格，是该地区最受拍照的地标之一。这座新建筑的位置必须很敏感，才能与那座雄伟的大厦并排坐着，尊重它的老建筑。

Elevated above the towns busy Main Street, the tranquil site accommodates St. Patrick’s Church, the former curates house, the parochial house and extensive sloping gardens. St. Patrick’s Church (1935) known as The Memorial Church of the four Masters. Built with Barnesmore pink granite and Mountcharles sandstone in a Neo Irish Romanesque style, the church is one of the most photographed landmarks in the area. The new building had to be placed sensitively to sit side by side with the domineering edifice, respecting its elder.

R.C.教区议会确定，位于圣帕特里克教堂西侧的前馆长住宅后面有一个高大的、生长茂盛的花园区域，是新中心选址的首选地点。客户要求与前馆长进行实际联系，因为它最近被翻新为协议办公场所、天主教婚姻护理服务中心，并提供收入。从商业上讲，这两座建筑相互连接，相辅相成，这是合情合理的。

 The R.C. Parish Council identified an elevated overgrown garden area to the rear of the former curates house located to the west of St. Patrick’s Church as the preferred location on the site for the new centre. The client requested that a physical link be made to the former curates house as it had been recently renovated as office space for Accord, Catholic Marriage Care Services and was providing an income. Commercially, it made sense that both buildings were linked and would complement each other.

新的中心被安置在教堂场地的边缘，并故意充当教堂花园的背景。在这样一个敏感的地方，对大型多用途大厅的需求带来了特殊的挑战和机遇。这座建筑被塞进了挖掘出来的小山里，大厅是一个从较低层进入的双高空间，从教堂经过一条步行街。一个人也可以进入停车场的上层水平，并下降到主要空间沿花岗岩脊墙。会议室和厨房是附属的，规模更近。

The new centre is placed at the edge of the church grounds and quite intentionally it acts as the backdrop to the church gardens. The requirement for a large multi-purpose hall posed particular challenges and opportunity in such a sensitive location. The building is tucked into the excavated hill, the hall is a double height space entered from the lower level by a processional pedestrian route from the church. One can also enter from the upper car parking level and descend into the main space along the granite spine wall. Meeting rooms, and kitchen are ancillary and more intimate in scale.

清澈的花岗岩弧形墙将建筑物与山坡联系在一起，各种形状的窗户被用来突出教堂的光和框架景观的运动，这再次表明了建筑的精神本质。在游行之旅结束后，在进入主大厅时，一个大的角落窗户被放置在整个圣帕特里克教堂的框架内。建筑材料被仔细限制，创造一种平静的精神感觉，简单的呈现出来的墙壁作为主要石墙的背景，一个戏剧性的铝在帆船屋檐上，是对精神建筑应该拥有的光环的隐喻反应。

The sweeping curved granite wall physically ties the building into the hillside, varying shapes of windows are used to highlight the movement of light and frame views of the church, again signifying the spiritual nature of the building. A large corner window is placed to entirely frame St. Patrick's Church upon entry to the main hall, on completion of the processional journey. The building materials are carefully limited to create a calm spiritual feeling, simple rendered walls act as a backdrop to the main stone walls, a dramatic aluminium over sailing eaves is a metaphorical response to the halo the spiritual building deserves.

 Ground Floor

一座弧形的石头交叉反射石制教堂塔，矗立在前馆舍前，这是一座70年代的平房结构，降低了房屋的家庭影响，并有助于扩大其规模，以配合新的中心。

A curved stone cross reflective of the stone church tower stands to attention in front of the former curates house a 1970’s bungalow structure reducing the domestic impact of the house, and helping to increase its scale, in keeping with the new centre.

该中心的基本意义和愿景是一个包容性的社区资源，人们可以聚在一起庆祝、学习、分享想法，同时以平静的镇静感为基础。

The fundamental meaning and vision of the centre is an inclusive community resource where people can gather to celebrate, learn, share ideas whilst rooted in a calm sense of composure.