The Granite Club Montgomery Sisam Architects

2016-03-11 11:00

 © Shai Gil

(C)Shai Gil

架构师提供的文本描述。花岗岩俱乐部为其10 000名成员的社区提供体育和社会设施。这座建筑是其悠久历史上的第四座建筑，其历史可追溯到20世纪70年代初，它同样以高质量的运动设计而闻名，就像它是用来围住许多这些用途的不透明外墙一样。这是一处美丽的自然景观，坐落在东西河陡峭的峡谷边缘。

Text description provided by the architects. The Granite Club provides athletic and social facilities to its community of 10,000 members. The existing building, the fourth in its long history, dates from the early 1970’s and is remarkable equally for the high quality of athletic programming provided as it is for the opaque exterior walls that enclose many of those uses. The site is a beautiful natural setting perched along the edge of the steep wooded ravine of the West Don River.

 © Shai Gil

(C)Shai Gil

这个项目是对70年代初期建筑的一个重大补充，该项目的目的是提供一个吸引人的、无障碍的入口、儿童保育、课外学习和活动、改善设施和网球场之间的通道、改变提供健身项目的趋势，以及提供三级额外的地下停车场。

This project is a major addition to the original 1970s building with a program designed to provide: an inviting and accessible entrance, child care, after-school study and activities, better access between change facilities and tennis courts, changing trends toward to provide fitness programs, and to provide three levels of additional underground parking.

 © Shai Gil

(C)Shai Gil

建筑方面的挑战是解决从现有建筑中继承下来的几十年前的问题，并通过向外、向峡谷、向网球场和向拜维尤大道开放，从而改变主要的内部空间。这导致了一个L形的计划，创造了一个新的法院俯瞰峡谷，并为体育和社会活动提供了场所。新的入口法院在前面是通过提高等级，以满足现有的地板水平，并进一步定义它与一个宏伟的铜包层，为下降和拾取。狭窄的建筑足迹和广阔的建筑悬垂为海湾和峡谷创造了一个有盖的门廊。入口已经旋转了90度，从现有的入口和框架的看法，通过峡谷到达时。

The architectural challenge was to redress a decades old problem inherited from the existing building and transform the largely interior spaces by opening them up to the outside, to the ravine, to the tennis courts and to Bayview Avenue. This resulted in an L-shaped plan that created a new court overlooking the ravine and provide a venue for athletics and social events. The new entrance court at the front is created by raising the grade to meet the existing floor level and further defining it with a grand copper clad covering for drop-off and pick-up. The narrow building footprint and extensive building overhangs creates a covered porch to both Bayview and the ravine. The entrance has been rotated 90 degrees form the existing entrance and frames views through to the ravine upon arrival.

在早期的设计过程中，该项目获得了主题漂移-因为这正是这一增加对“庞然大物”，即现有的设施所做的。

Early on in the design process the project acquired the theme Shiftingravity – for that is exactly what this addition has done to the “behemoth” that was the existing facility.