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架构师提供的文本描述。对于水降图书馆和公民中心，RDHA应用工作室的做法，定制现成的组件，以创造一个特殊的建筑由普通的材料。这一目标，再加上建筑的位置-尼亚加拉山，一座俯瞰安大略省湖的岩石山脊-为这座建筑的设计提供了动力。这个多用途的设施，包括一个图书馆、一个遗产社会档案、警察和市政社区服务中心，以及一个老年人娱乐中心，将各种人口统计资料集中在一栋建筑物中。

Text description provided by the architects. For the Waterdown Library and Civic Centre, RDHA applied the studio’s practice of customizing off-the-shelf components to create an extraordinary building from ordinary materials. This objective, coupled with the building’s location — on the Niagara Escarpment, a rocky ridge overlooking Lake Ontario — established the impetus for the building’s design. The multi-use facility, which includes a library as well as a heritage society archive, police and municipal community service outlets, and a seniors' recreation centre, unites various demographics in a single building.

 © Tom Arban

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 © Tom Arban

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在整个过程中，RDHA采用了标准的、战备的系统和材料，允许实验和量身定做的体系结构，同时保持预算的合理，并从客户端消除风险。即使是最标准的元素，如条形灯，也会受到一定程度的谨慎对待，从而增加优雅。

Throughout, RDHA adapted standard, warrantied systems and materials, allowing for experimentation and tailored architecture, while keeping the budget reasonable and removing the risk from the client. Even the most standard elements such as strip lights were treated with a degree of care that adds elegance.

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这座建筑坐落在悬崖上的一个最高点，在那里，大地开始向湖面倾斜，从这个最高点到下面一条主干道的边缘，它的海拔改变了3米。低，线性体积悬挑出的斜坡，像一个悬浮块的白云石石灰石。石板鳍和面板覆盖了外部，创造了一个大胆的，近整体的外观，里面是倒置的，在那里，设计团队利用地理来建立一个计划，这个计划是基于一系列可访问的、倾斜的走道，这些走道可以让游客通过图书馆，下到娱乐室。

The building sits at a high point on an escarpment, where the earth begins to drop down towards to the lake, changing three metres in elevation from this high point to the edge of a main thoroughfare below. The low, linear volume cantilevers out from the slope like a hovering block of dolomitic limestone. Stone slab fins and panels clad the exterior, creating a bold, near-monolithic appearance that is inverted within, where the design team used the geography to establish a plan that is based on a series of accessible, sloping walkways that wind visitors through the library and down to the recreation rooms.

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内部地形提高了对周围景观的认识。它在图书馆达到了顶峰，在那里，由道格拉斯冷杉书库组成的一条小径，沿着这座建筑的最高点，形成了一系列的梯田。在顶部，一个巨大的，天空照明的阅读中庭提供惊人的景观的悬崖.在室外，一个户外阅读平台和一个带有开花轿车的倾斜的绿色屋顶加强了与站点的连接。

The internal topography heightens awareness of the surrounding landscape. It reaches its peak in the library,where a series of four terraces step up towards the highest point in the building, demarcated by a path of Douglas fir book stacks. At the top, a large, sky-lit reading atrium provides striking views of the escarpment. Outside, an outdoor reading terrace and a sloping green roof with flowering sedums intensify the connection to the site.

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在大，开放概念的房间，RDHA仔细地开辟了亲密的空间，并保持了高度的控制，完成和家具，以确保有凝聚力的内部环境。进入走廊中的道格拉斯第一音符是从现已拆除的汉密尔顿中央图书馆分馆回收的材料，在儿童区，天花板向下倾斜，创造了一个儿童友好的技术和活动空间，上面点缀着婴儿潘顿椅子。大图书馆里安静的自习室有承重的、完全由玻璃制成的叠层墙，不可思议地支撑着看似沉重的天花板，在保持场地线条的同时，这些天花板挡住了声音。树枝的特殊品质是突出了玻璃围封，乙醇壁炉，毗邻一组保林橙片和郁金香椅子的余色。

Within the large, open-concept room, RDHA has carefully carved out intimate spaces and maintained a high degree of control over the finishes and furniture to ensure a cohesive interior environment. The Douglas Firaccents in the entry corridor are recycled material from the now-demolished Hamilton Central Library branch.In the children’s area, the ceiling dips down, creating a space with child-friendly technology and activities, dotted with baby Panton chairs. Quiet study rooms in the larger library have load-bearing, laminated walls made entirely of glass, uncannily supporting seemingly heavy ceilings that block the sound while preserving site lines. The special quality of the branch is underscored by a line of glass-enclosed, ethanol fireplaces, adjacent to a grouping of Paulin Orange Slice and Tulip chairs in ember hues.

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新图书馆采用了自动登入和返回设备，使前线工作人员能够专注于编程和增加客户服务。此外，工作人员现在可以在工作人员工作间获得技术，使他们的时间不那么受限制。

The new library incorporates automatic check-in and return equipment that has allowed frontline staff to focus on programming and increased customer service. Also, the staff now have access to technology while in the staff workroom, enabling their time to become less constrained.

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 100 Level Plan

100级计划

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RDHA在整合可持续功能方面也采取了类似的谨慎态度。该建筑有一个开花果园来遮荫停车场，在停车场和绿色空间与地下雨水收集一起，和低VOC，回收和当地材料在整个设计中深思熟虑地结合在一起。截至2016年8月，图书馆的标准指标在所有类别中均高于2015年同期。参观该部门的人数增加(150.1%)，图书馆资料的发行量(实物：47.7%；数字：33.7%)，节目出勤率(220.3%)，使用电脑的次数(103.9%)，无线使用(1885.7%)和新的图书馆卡都有了巨大的增长。图书馆客户喜欢他们有一个如此美丽的地方，社区工作空间，打电话回家。一些客户说，他们不知道Waterdown以前有一个分支图书馆，所以这个新的设施肯定引起了许多新到图书馆的个人的注意。

RDHA took similar care with integrating sustainable features. The building has a flowering orchard to shade the parking areas, bio-swales in parking lots and green spaces in conjunction with an underground rainwater collection, and low-VOC, recycled and local materials thoughtfully integrated throughout the design. The Library’s standard metrics were up in every category as of August 2016 over the same period in 2015. Increases in visitors to the branch (150.1%), circulation of library materials (physical: 47.7%; digital: 33.7%), program attendance (220.3%), computer sessions used (103.9%), wireless use (1885.7%) and new library cards generated all saw huge gains. Library customers love that they have such a beautiful place community workspace to call home. Some customers have remarked they were unaware that Waterdown had a branch library before, so the new facility has certainly caught the attention of many new-to-library individuals.

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Architects RDHA

Location 163 Dundas St E, Hamilton, ON L8N 2Z7, Canada

Category Library

Project Team Tyler Sharp (Design Partner), Bob Goyeche (Managing Partner), Sanjoy Pal, Andrew Cranford, Soo-Jin Rim, Ivan Ilic

Area 23500.0 ft2

Project Year 2016

Photographs Tom Arban

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