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General Contractor GH Phipps Construction Companies, Centennial, CO Structural Engineer & Enclosure Consultan Studio NYL Structural Engineers & The Skins Group, Boulder, CO (Project Team: Christopher O'Hara, P.E. | Will Babbington, P.E. AIA) Mechanical BCER Engineering Civil Engineer Carroll & Lange-Manhard Total Project Cost $6M usd Client Denver Botanic Gardens (Brian Vogt, CEO) Manufacturers Loading... More Specs Less Specs

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架构师提供的文本描述。科学金字塔位于花园约克街的中南部。该建筑由南侧和西侧的水池、东北方向的低洼竞技场和东边的埃尔波马尔水道组成，其选址确保了从花园的其他地方观看360度的视线。设计的目的是对周围环境做出反应，同时在不影响周围因素的情况下，给现场带来适当的规模感，这座建筑坐落在一个方形的几何图形平台上，从这个平台上升起了将近34英尺，最终形成了金字塔的形状。金字塔也是对角线划分为两个部分，并稍微分开，以创建一个视觉连接沿对角线轴线与现有的四塔水特征在西南角。金字塔从El Pomar水道进入，引导游客沿着由两侧高高的垂直墙构成的平静的水池往返于建筑物内。在入口处，建筑物的表皮凸起，在东面的门槛上形成了眉毛。

Text description provided by the architects. The Science Pyramid is located in the south central portion of the Gardens' York Street location. Defined by pools of water on the south and west sides, a depressed amphitheater to the northeast, and the El Pomar Waterway to the east, the building's site selection assures 360-degree sightlines when viewed from the rest of the Gardens.Designed to respond to its surrounding environment while bringing a sense of scale appropriate to the site without dominating surrounding elements, the building rests on a square geometric platform from which it risesnearly 34feet to its ultimate shape of a pyramid. The Pyramid is also diagonally divided into two sections and pulled apart slightly to create a visual connection along a diagonal axis with the existing Four Towers water feature on the southwest corner. The Pyramid's entry from the El Pomar Waterway, leads visitors to and from the building along a tranquil pool of water defined by tall vertical walls on each side. At the entryway, the building's skin is raised, forming an eyebrow over the threshold along the east façade. 

生物模拟是指导科学金字塔设计理念发展和形成的主导主题。就像从地球上出现的一种形式一样，这座建筑描绘了一种充满活力、螺旋式的运动，象征着构造板块如何向上推进，创造出全新的东西-在这种情况下，它让位于一座在花园里拥有新生命和新知识的建筑。为了进一步推进这一概念，它的建筑外壳或表皮，模仿自然，通过屏蔽自己的六角形蜂窝包层设计，以保护内部免受雨，雪和风，这是蜂巢的性质。室内空间和展览让参观者通过科学的视角来了解植物的世界。

Biomimicry was the dominant theme guiding the development and formation of the Science Pyramid's design concept. Like a form emerging from the earth, the building portrays a dynamic, spiraling movement that symbolizes how tectonic plates push upward to create something brand new—in this case, giving way to a building that holds new life and knowledge at the Gardens. To further the concept, its building envelope or skin, imitates nature by shielding itself with hexagonal-shaped honeycomb cladding designed to protect the interior from rain, snow and wind, as is the nature of a beehive. The interior space and exhibits inform visitors to see the world of plants through a scientific lens.

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作为回应，丹佛植物园要求建立一个标志性的科学金字塔，展示他们的科学成果和一些更广泛的概念，如全球气候变化，Burkett设计团队以一个混合了玻璃和不透明系统的金字塔作为回应。此外，它没有提出传统的四面金字塔结构，而是被分割和调整，以响应花园的循环走廊，令人难以置信的周围景观和日光。拉伸形式也为机械系统等重要的功能需求提供了空间。就像金字塔的两边互相靠在一起，让它像一个三维的三销拱门一样，科学金字塔多面的侧面在“脊柱”相交，一条天窗的玻璃带状，斜着穿过建筑物的脚印。建筑物的表皮来源于早期的结构概念，利用蜂窝产生的六角形形状来建立刚性隔膜。

In response, Denver Botanic Gardens' request for an iconic Science Pyramid to showcase their science work and a number of broader concepts such as global climate change, the Burkett Design team responded with a pyramid that mixes glazed and opaque systems. Further, rather than propose a conventional four-sided pyramid structure, the form was split and tweaked to respond to the Gardens' circulation corridors, incredible surrounding landscape and daylight. Stretching the form also provided space for important functional requirements such as mechanical systems. Much like how the sides of a pyramid lean on each other allowing it to perform like a three-dimensional three-pin arch, the Science Pyramid’s faceted sides meet at the “spine,” a glazed ribbon of skylights cutting diagonally through the building’s footprint. The skin of the building derives its geometry from early structural concepts using hexagonal shapes derived from honeycombs to establish rigid diaphragms.

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金字塔的技术先进，高性能皮肤(外观)，由纽约工作室设计，包覆四英尺宽的六角形通风瑞士先锋纤维水泥面板，模仿自然的蜡蜂巢的几何效率。30个电池板的特点是光伏集热器的任务是收集能源为内部展览。此外，结构的中心部分和多个玻璃孔是由电致变色玻璃构成的，根据太阳强度，或在建筑物的程序要求的开关翻转时，在一天中从透明到97%的不透明程度进行调整。日落时分，窗户亮了起来，展示了附近五颜六色的室内展品和室外植物群。

The Pyramid's technologically advanced, high performance skin (façade), designed by Studio NYL, is clad in four-foot-wide hexagonal-shaped ventilated Swisspearl fiber-cement panels that mimic the geometric efficiency of nature's wax honeycombs. Thirty panels feature photovoltaic collectors tasked with gathering energy for interior exhibits. In addition, the central portion of the structure and multiple glass portholes are constructed of electrochromic glass, which adjusts in opacity from clear to 97 percent opaque throughout the day, based on solar intensity, or at the flip of a switch as the building's program requires. At sundown, the windows lighten to reveal the building's colorful interior exhibits and exterior flora nearby.

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科学金字塔有四层结构和外壳。第一层，或初级结构包括钢管元素，倾斜和平衡自己的“脊柱”，如上文所述。该结构提供了“金字塔”内部的无柱结构和一种主要结构，通过弯曲和轴向荷载通过管道构件将其上的所有垂直和横向荷载分散。为避免制造“鱼嘴”接头的成本高、难度大，“T”和“K”交叉的管道采用简单的“H”和“A”形连接元件进行正方形切割，节省了大量的成本和工期。

The Science Pyramid has four layers to its structure and shell. The first layer, or primary structure consists of steel pipe elements which lean and balance themselves onto the “spine” of the building as noted above. The structure provides for a column-free interior to the “pyramid” and a primary structure that sheds all the vertical and lateral loads on it through flexure and axial loads through the pipe members. To avoid the costly and difficult to fabricate “fishmouthed” joints, the pipes with “T” and “K” intersections are square cut with simple “H” and “A” shaped connection elements, which saved considerable cost and schedule.

该二级结构由6英寸空心方形结构形状和6英寸光规螺柱组成，其特殊布置以满足包层系统的几何要求。它还由细长的杆支撑，允许天花板漂浮在主管道结构构件上。

The secondary structure is composed of six-inch hollow square structural shapes and six-inch light gage studs specifically arranged to meet the cladding systems geometry. It is also supported by slender rods to permit the ceiling to float over the primary pipe structural members.  

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最后两层构成了金字塔技术先进的表皮(外观)，由纽约工作室设计。一层连续的硬质绝缘层位于二级结构的舷外，有一个空气屏障系统直接贴在上面。这座建筑覆盖着四英尺宽的六角形通风瑞士长矛纤维水泥板，模仿自然蜂巢的几何效率。它们安装在绝缘和气候屏障上方的钢轨系统上，采用纤维增强聚合物紧固件将外部皮肤与内部结构热分离。

The final two layers make up the Pyramid’s technologically advanced skin (façade), designed by Studio NYL. A continuous layer of rigid insulation sits outboard of the secondary structure with an air barrier system directly adhered to it. The building is clad in four-foot-wide hexagonal-shaped ventilated Swisspearl fiber-cement panels that mimic the geometric efficiency of nature's wax honeycombs. They are mounted to a rail system held above the insulation and weather barrier with fiber reinforced polymer fasteners that thermally separate the outer skin from the interior structure.

Architects BURKETTDESIGN

Location United States, Denver, CO, USA

Category Pavillion

Design Team Ben Niamthet, Project Designer ; Barton Harris, AIA, Principal & Project Manager ; Rieko Ishiwata, AIA, Project Architect

Area 5258.0 ft2

Project Year 2014

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