架构师提供的文本描述。曹沟教学学校位于河南省洛阳市宋县，现有学生49人，教师4人。这所学校没有阅览室，所以他们现有的320本书分散在整个教室里。这个项目将增加一个新的阅览室，并提供更多的书籍。所有现有的和新书都将放在阅览室里，供所有学生借阅。

Text description provided by the architects. Tsiaogou teaching school locates in Song County of Luoyang City, Henan province and has 49 students and 4 teachers. The school has no reading room so that the 320 books they currently have are scattered in all the classroom. This project will add a new reading room and supply more books. All the current and new books will be put in the reading room for all the students to borrow.

校园很紧。没有空荡荡的教室可以变成阅览室，操场也不能被占用，以确保孩子们有足够的空间进行户外活动。因此，学校计划在教学楼附近的围栏墙角作为新阅览室的场地。

The campus is pretty tight. there’s no empty classroom can be transformed into reading room and the playground cannot be occupied as well to make sure the children have enough space for outdoor activities. So the school planned to use the corner of the fencing wall adjacent to the teaching building as the site for the new reading room.

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当我们参观现场，看到美丽的大雪松时，我们决定阅览室不应该蹲在角落里。相反，它应该被当作树伞下的小屋。

When we visited the site and saw the beautiful big cedar, we decided that the reading room shouldn’t crouch in the corner. Instead, it should be treated as a cottage underneath the tree umbrella.

最后的设计使用一个扇形形状，形成一个空间周围的雪松。在阅览室前，我们设置了一个外径为8米的木露台。和大树伞一起，这个露台变成了一个舒适的半外部空间，孩子们可以悠闲地坐在那里看书，或者在同学们的游乐场上看游戏。阅览室的形状没有占据教学楼的一角，所以办公室的窗户不被遮挡，小公园被保留。我们还在阅览室的背面放了门，孩子们可以从那里去小公园。这个设计使阅览室不仅仅是一个功能性的房间，而且是一个有趣的连接室内外活动，重建整个校园空间。

The final design uses a fanlike shape to form a space surrounding the cedar. In front of the reading room, we set a exterior wood terrace of 8m in diameter. Together with the big tree umbrella, this terrace become a comfortable semi-exterior space where children could leisurely sit and enjoy their reading, or watch the games on the play ground of their classmates. The shape of the reading room doesn’t occupy the corner of the teaching building ,so that the window of the office is not blocked and the small parterre is reserved. We also put doors on the backside of the reading room from which children can go to the small parterre. This design makes the reading room not just a functional room, but also an interesting connection between indoor and outdoor activities that reconstructs the entire space of the campus.

我们使阅览室略低于正常高度。倾斜屋顶内侧的高度只有1.8米，成人的高度相对较紧。我们希望通过这个细节让孩子们觉得这对他们来说是特别的。

We make the reading room slightly lower than normal height. The height of the inner side of the slopping roof is only 1.8m and relatively tight for adults. We hope to make the children feel that this is special for them through this detail.

我们把内部的结构网格暴露出来，用作书架。

We exposed the structural grid in interior to use as bookshelves.

由于场地位于山区，为便于运输和施工，选择了木材结构。为了保证热性能，我们没有使用太多的玻璃开口，而是引入了天窗来使内部更加明亮，以及太阳系的照明。这些设施的使用，除了功能上的考虑外，也是向儿童介绍可持续的技术。

Because the site locates in mountain area, wood structure is selected to make the transportation and construction easier. To ensure the thermal performance, we didn’t use too much glass openings, but introduce skylight to make the interior brighter, and solar system for lighting. The uses of these facilities is also an introduction of sustainable technologies to the children besides functional consideration.

在施工过程中，我们已经从学校那里听说，孩子们对新的阅览室很好奇，经常来参观建筑工地。现在阅览室是开放的，成为孩子们喜爱的地方。在阅览室旁边的黑板上，我们发现孩子们称它为大帆船，这是他们对它的想象。我们希望大伞下的木屋能成为他们童年美好的回忆。

During the construction process, we already heard from the school that the children were very curious about the new reading room and often came to see the construction site. Now the reading room is open and becomes a beloved place of the children. On the blackboard beside the reading room, we found that the children call it big sailboat that is their imagination of it. We hope that the wood cottage under the huge tree umbrella could become a beautiful memory of their childhood.