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 Ground Floor Plan

架构师提供的文本描述。LEED黄金认证萨里市中心图书馆标志着对萨里市中心改造进行重大公民投资的下一阶段。随着容易获得的电子信息的进步，图书馆的作用正在发生变化，藏书不再是中心焦点。

Text description provided by the architects. The LEED® Gold Certified Surrey City Centre Library marks the next phase of a major civic investment in the transformation of downtown Surrey. With advances in easily available electronic information, the role of libraries is changing and the book collection is no longer the central focus.

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建筑设计的发展是为了提供一个阅读、学习的空间，最重要的是，作为一个社区聚集在一起。图书馆的特色是大窗户，入口有清晰的视线，游客可以在空间中快速定位，还有一个向上缠绕的中央中庭和两个天窗，可以让自然光进入大楼。利用目前最先进的计算机建模软件，BTA能够保证混凝土模板的高效、易施工。外部混凝土结构被仔细地描述为最后的表面，从而消除了昂贵的建筑覆层的需要。

The building design evolved out of the need to provide a space for reading, studying, and above all, gathering as a community. The library features large windows, a welcoming entrance with clear sight lines that allow visitors to quickly orient themselves in the space, and an upward winding central atrium and two skylights that allow natural light into the building. Utilizing state of the art computer modeling software, BTA was able to ensure that the concrete formwork was highly efficient and easy to construct. The exterior concrete structure was carefully detailed as the final surface, thereby eliminating the need for expensive building cladding.

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向外倾斜的墙壁也提供太阳能遮阳。BTA与萨里图书馆管理员一起，利用博客、Facebook、Twitter和Flickr制定了一项社交媒体战略，让社区参与大楼的设计，鼓励公众发表评论和照片，从而使城市中心图书馆成为世界上第一座借助社交媒体设计的公共建筑。

The outward sloped walls also provide solar shading. Together with the Surrey librarians, BTA developed a social media strategy using blogs, Facebook, Twitter and Flickr to engage the community in the design of the building, encouraging the public to post comments and photos, thereby making the City Centre Library arguably the first public building in the world to be designed with the aid of social media.

Architects Bing Thom Architects

Location Surrey, BC, Canada

Category Library

Architect in Charge Bing Thom Architects

Area 82000.0 ft2

Project Year 2011

Photographs Ema Peter