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架构师提供的文本描述。谢菲尔德大学(UniversityofSheffield)开创性的钻石建筑现已完工，这对该大学发展和扩大其工程学院、为学生和学者提供世界级设施的雄心做出了重大贡献。

Text description provided by the architects. The ground-breaking Diamond building at The University of Sheffield has now been completed, making a major contribution to the University’s ambition to develop and expand its Faculty of Engineering with world-class facilities for students and academics.

 Ground Floor Plan

这座建筑由十二位建筑师设计，由巴尔弗·比提建造，以其独特的外观命名，是一座19，500平方米的设施、专门的工程实验室、演讲厅、大型灵活的教学空间、讲习班、一个学习资源中心以及为多达5，000名学生提供的综合正规和非正规学习环境。

Designed by Twelve Architects* and constructed by Balfour Beatty, the building – named The Diamond after its unique façade – is a 19,500m2 facility, housing specialist engineering laboratories, lecture theatres, large scale flexible teaching spaces, workshops, a learning resource centre and integrated formal and informal study environments for up to 5,000 students.

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除了为许多大学工程本科生提供住所外，钻石学院还为一系列其他系提供设施，促进在适合21世纪研究和实践的环境中开展协作和跨学科工作。

As well as providing a home for many of the University’s Engineering undergraduates, the Diamond provides facilities for a range of other departments, promoting collaboration and cross-disciplinary working in an environment fit for 21st century research and practice.

这是该校有史以来在教学方面进行的最大规模的资本投资，达到了8100万英镑。这份简报呼吁建造一座大楼，以支持其在2021年前成为英国领先的工程大学，并将工程学院规模扩大一倍的雄心。由于本学年的申请人数增加了25%，客户团队认为钻石在继续吸引世界级学者和优秀学生方面发挥着关键作用。

At £81 million, it is the largest capital investment in teaching and learning ever undertaken by the University, and the brief called for a building that would support its ambition of becoming the UK’s leading engineering university and doubling the size of the Faculty of Engineering by 2021. With applications up by 25% for the current academic year, the client team believes the Diamond has a key role to play in continuing to attract world class academics and the best students.

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外观为钻石创造了一个独特的存在。阳极铝和玻璃外墙的灵感来自周围历史建筑的详细描述，特别是周围教堂窗户的石制花边。它还参考了“元胞自动机”，这是一种在工程领域研究的离散模型，被大学用来描述钢的微观结构在加工过程中是如何变化的。

The external appearance creates a distinctive presence for the Diamond. The anodised aluminium and glass façade draws inspiration from the detailing of the surrounding historic buildings and in particular the stone tracery that frames the windows of the adjacent church. It also references a ‘cellular automaton’, a discrete model studied in the field of engineering and used by the University to describe how the microstructure of steel changes during processing.

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建筑的精神是支持工程的各个方面的工作，从基础科学到专业实践。12位建筑师的设计提供了一条在底层的公共线路和一个中央中庭，使人们能够看到正在进行的“展示”工程活动。

The ethos of the building is to support work across the full spectrum of engineering, from fundamental science to professional practice. Twelve Architects’ design provides a public route at ground floor level and a central atrium that enables people to view the ‘showcase’ engineering activities being undertaken.

 Third Floor Plan

三层平面图

在自然通风的中庭，弯曲的“豆荚”住宅空间，用于非正式的个人和团体学习。中庭北面及南面设有课室、化验室及办公室，并设有全高度玻璃，以最大限度地改善教学空间的内部视野，以展示最佳的工程教育及研究成果。屋顶灯光充满室内的日光和定制设计的玻璃研究桌在一楼中庭允许自然光穿透地面和较低的地面水平，同时创造隔音。

Within the naturally ventilated atrium, curved ‘pods’ house spaces for informal personal and group learning. Classrooms, laboratories and offices are arranged to the north and south of the atrium with full height glazing to maximise internal views to and from the teaching spaces which display the best of engineering education and research. Rooflights flood the interior with daylight and custom-designed glazed study tables within the first floor atrium allow the natural light to penetrate the ground and lower ground levels whilst creating acoustic separation.

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系列演讲厅位于底层较低层，可容纳1500个空间，最大的演讲厅可容纳400人。

A series of lecture theatres are located at lower ground floor level with a total capacity of 1500 spaces, with the largest lecture theatre seating 400 people.

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Architects Twelve Architects

Location Information Commons, 32 Leavygreave Rd, Sheffield, South Yorkshire S3 7RD, United Kingdom

Category University

Area 19500.0 sqm

Project Year 2015

Photographs Jack Hobhouse