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架构师提供的文本描述。作家剧院是一家受欢迎的戏剧公司，在芝加哥郊区的格伦科，伊利诺伊州。作家们于1992年在一家书店的书房里成立，从一开始就把亲密视为它的标志美学。2003年，作家们在Glencoe妇女图书馆俱乐部建立了一个更大的空间，但在108个座位上，这个新的场所很快就提出了自己的挑战。该公司面临着黯淡的经济前景，尽管有热情和忠诚的观众。他们一夜地接近产能，但由于座位很少，生产成本稳步上升，他们需要一个更大、更灵活的空间来实现增长。

Text description provided by the architects. Writers Theatre is a popular theater company in the Chicago suburb of Glencoe, Illinois. Founded in the back room of a bookstore in 1992, Writers has embraced intimacy as its hallmark aesthetic since the very beginning. In 2003, Writers established a larger space at the Woman’s Library Club of Glencoe, but, at 108 seats, this new venue soon imposed challenges of its own. The company faced bleak economic prospects despite an enthusiastic and committed audience. They were playing close to capacity night after night, but with very few seats to sell and production costs steadily rising, they were in need of a larger, more flexible space to allow for their growth.

与此同时，格伦科(Glencoe)-芝加哥以北20英里的郊区，拥有大约9000名居民-开始了一项雄心勃勃的总体计划，将市中心地区更多的文化和商业空间整合起来。同时，现有但恶化的妇女图书馆俱乐部大楼急需修复。作家们与妇女图书馆俱乐部和格伦科村合作，抓住机会在图书馆俱乐部网站上建立了一个定制的剧院中心和市中心发展的催化剂。

Meanwhile, Glencoe—a suburb 20 miles north of Chicago with a population of approximately 9,000 residents—embarked on an ambitious master plan to integrate more cultural and commercial spaces in the downtown area. At the same time, the existing but deteriorated Woman’s Library Club building was in serious need of repair. Partnering with the Woman’s Library Club and the Village of Glencoe, Writers seized the opportunity to build a custom theater center and catalyst for downtown development on the Library Club site.

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该公司每一季都有35，000名观众观看，并因其一贯的高品质和亲密的艺术性而赢得了批评。有了新的永久家，作家们想要确保这些特点得以保持，同时也能容纳越来越多的观众，改善他们为全球艺术家社区提供的设施，并与公众建立新的关系。由此产生的设计以其透明度和灵活性，旨在为格伦科伊市中心的日常生活注入活力，创造一个开放、欢迎的空间，在那里，剧院通过分享经验将人们跨越边界的潜力展现出来。

The company, which plays to an audience of 35,000 patrons each season, has garnered critical praise for the consistent high quality and intimacy of its artistry. With their new permanent home, Writers wanted to ensure these hallmark traits were maintained while also accommodating a growing audience base, improving their facilities for their global community of artists, and creating new relationships with the public. The resulting design, with its transparency and flexibility, is intended to energize daily life in downtown Glencoe, creating an open, welcoming space where the potential of theater to unite people across boundaries through shared experience is rendered visible.

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剧院的基础是一个作为大厅的公共聚会空间，以及一个表演、彩排和观众外联活动的非正式空间，以及一个正式的活动空间。两个表演场地，一个250个座位的主舞台和一个99个座位的黑匣子场地，以及排练室和其他公共设施，向这一中心空间开放。第二层的画廊步道，向市中心，湖泊和附近的树林提供景观，是由木材空腹桁架结构和一个较轻的木材格子悬挂在拉从主要结构。在温暖的天气下，这个中央枢纽向邻近的公园和市中心开放，使剧院内产生的能量和互动向外延伸到社区之外。晚上，它像灯笼一样从内部发光，吸引了人们对这个重要的文化锚和格兰科市中心的兴趣和活动。

The theater is anchored by a public gathering space that serves as a lobby as well as an informal space for performance, rehearsals, and audience outreach programs, and a formal space for events. Two performance venues, a 250-seat main stage and a 99-seat black box venue, as well as rehearsal rooms and other public amenities, open to this central space. A second-floor gallery walk, providing views toward the downtown, lake, and nearby grove, is structured by timber Vierendeel trusses and a lighter wood lattice hung in tension from the primary structure. In warm weather this central hub opens to the adjacent public park and downtown, allowing the energy and interaction generated within the theater to extend outward into the community beyond. At night, it glows from within like a lantern, drawing interest and activity to this important cultural anchor and downtown Glencoe.

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表演空间的设计旨在最大限度地提高演员与观众之间的亲密感，并增强以“作家”而闻名的身临其境的体验。在更大的场地里，论坛报的座位被从墙壁上解放出来，吸引了激动人心的演员入口处和其他创新的舞台机会，从剧院地板到舞台的无缝过渡进一步增强了这种机会。为了纪念公司的历史，从妇女图书馆俱乐部大楼回收的砖块形成了一个精心设计的房子后面的声学屏幕，它扩散并反映了一个亲密的听觉环境的声音。较小的黑匣子场地可以无限定制的表演和活动。屋顶展馆和绿色屋顶提供额外的活动空间。

The design of the performance spaces is intended to maximize the sense of intimacy between actors and audience and enhance the immersive experience for which Writers is known. In the larger venue, tribune seating is liberated from the walls, inviting exciting actor entrances and other innovative staging opportunities, further enhanced by a seamless transition from theater floor to stage. In a nod to the history of the company, bricks reclaimed from the Woman’s Library Club building form an elaborately patterned back-of-house acoustic screen that diffuses and reflects sound for an intimate aural environment. The smaller black box venue can be infinitely customized for performances and events. A rooftop pavilion and green roof offer additional event space.

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作家剧院不仅为其附近的格伦科社区服务，而且还吸引了芝加哥大都市区和其他地区的观众。随着这个新的文化设施的开放，每年有将近45，000人可以被吸引到Glencoe，分享公司的表演、社区活动、讲习班和聚会的经验，将表演的艺术注入到他们的日常生活中。

Writers Theatre not only serves its immediate Glencoe community but also attracts audiences from the Chicago metropolitan region and beyond. With the opening of this new cultural facility, nearly 45,000 additional people could be drawn to Glencoe each year to share in the experience of the company’s performances, community events, workshops, and gatherings, infusing the art of performance into their everyday lives.

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Architects Studio Gang Architects

Location Glencoe, IL, United States

Category Theater

Architect in Charge Studio Gang Architects

Area 36000.0 ft2

Project Year 2016

Photographs Hedrich Blessing