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架构师提供的文本描述。Arup Associates公司为考文垂大学新的工程和计算学院的建筑和工程设计采用了该大学教授这些科目的渐进、经验的方法。

Text description provided by the architects. Arup Associates’ architecture and engineering design for Coventry University’s new Faculty of Engineering and Computing embraces the university’s progressive, experiential approach to teaching these subjects.

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这种以环境为主导的设计鼓励在不同学科之间进行开放和自由的思想交流。这在以活动为主导、以项目为基础的学习方法中产生了新的协同作用.

The environmentally led design encourages an open and free exchange of ideas across disciplines. This creates new synergies within an activity-led, project-based learning approach.

最先进的设施。

State-of-the-art Facilities.

BREEAM的规模相对较小，它的“优秀”建筑强调并庆祝人们和学习经验，同时利用激进的技术创新。它包括：

Relatively modest in scale, the BREEAM ‘Excellent’ building emphasises and celebrates people and the learning experience while making use of radical technical innovation. It includes:

-拥有飞行模拟器和发动机测试单元的高性能工程中心

-A high-performance engineering centre with flight simulators and engine test cells

-高精度风洞测试设施

-A high-precision wind tunnel testing facility

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-两个演讲厅，可细分为会议

-Two lecture theatres that can be subdivided for conferences

-为4 000名学生提供合作教室，包括信息技术工作区

-Collaborative classrooms for 4,000 students, including IT workspaces

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-带有学习亭的公共互动空间

-Communal interactive spaces with learning booths

-综合学术办公室，推动新的研究和教学

-Integrated academic offices, driving new research and teaching

-所有这些都是由最先进的通讯骨干连接起来的。

-All linked by a state-of-the-art communications backbone

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一种彻底的循环再造。

A radical reinvention of circulation.

从一开始，ArupAssociates就拒绝了学术建筑的典型模式-由一个流通空间联合起来的一系列独立的空间。相反，建筑师们专注于相互联系、灵活的空间，这些空间既可以居住，也可以流通。

From the beginning, Arup Associates rejected the typical model for an academic building – a series of separate independent spaces united by a circulation space. Instead, the architects focussed on interconnected, flexible spaces that are both inhabited and used for circulation.

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这种统一的循环方式使人们能够直观地在建筑物的不同层次之间进行导航。在这个空间丰富、流畅的建筑中，小空间与更大的中庭并列，为教职员和学生提供了作为更广泛的教师社区一部分进行交流、阅读、学习、交流和互动的场所。教学突破了教室和教室的限制，进入了非正式的空间。

The unifying means of circulation allows people to navigate intuitively around and between the building’s different levels. In this spatially rich, fluid building, smaller spaces juxtaposed with larger atria provide places for staff and students to circulate, read, learn, communicate, and interact as part of the wider faculty community. Teaching breaks out of the confines of lecture theatres and classrooms into the informal spaces.

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自然采光和通风-使用中庭的体积来通过建筑物吸入新鲜空气-使人们能够控制自己的环境。无论是打开窗户，轻松导航，还是选择他们工作最佳的空间，这座建筑都会让居住者负责。

Natural lighting and ventilation – with the volume of the atrium used to draw fresh air through the building – gives people control of their environment. Whether it’s opening a window, navigating easily or choosing the space where they work best, this building puts occupants in charge.

建筑成为一种学习工具。

The Building Becomes a Learning Tool.

由于该大学渴望给学生提供一切可能的实际学习机会，ArupAssociates设想了一种方法，使建筑本身成为一种学习工具。

With the university keen to give students every possible opportunity to learn practically, Arup Associates conceived an approach whereby the building itself would become a learning tool.

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其结果是一个高度可读的建筑提供了丰富的，动态的经验。工程系的学生可以研究混凝土和钢材上的作用力，他们可以看到服务是如何在大楼周围蜿蜒而行的。

The result is a highly readable building offering a rich, dynamic experience. Engineering students can study the forces at work on the concrete and steel, and they can see how services wind their way around the building.

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上层平面图

在一个区域内，被称为“行星”的浮动模块空间悬挂在结构钢结构上，使学生有机会在实际工作中体验到作用力。同时，暴露的服务被紧密地协调到电气、机械和公共卫生区域，这样学生就可以沿着他们的道路在建筑物周围走动。

In one zone, floating modular spaces known as ‘the planets’ hang from structural steelwork, giving students the chance to experience the forces at work on a practical level. Meanwhile, exposed services are closely coordinated into electrical, mechanical and public health zones so that students can follow their path around the building.

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精益动态结构。

A Lean and Dynamic Structure.

除了鼓励和庆祝学生对工程的承诺外，这座建筑本身也是勇敢和创新的。它的混凝土框架中的每一个元素的潜力已经最大化，以产生一个原始的，强大的和戏剧性的结构。

As well as encouraging and celebrating students’ commitment to engineering, the building is itself brave and innovative. The potential of every element in its concrete frame has been maximised to produce a raw, robust and dramatic structure.

设计和建造接近合理的建筑，直到最后的细节。但这并不是一个成功依赖于细节的建筑，它的质量是建筑的内在属性。所有的东西都暴露了，没有层层的复杂性，也不需要庞大的固定装置、配件和设备预算。

The design-and-build approached rationalised the building down to the last detail. But this isn’t an architecture whose success hangs on the detail; its qualities are intrinsic to the building. With everything exposed there were no layers of complexity and there was no need for a huge fixtures, fittings and equipment budget.

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Architects Arup Associates

Location Gulson Rd, Coventry, West Midlands CV1 2JH, United Kingdom

Category University

Area 15000.0 sqm

Project Year 2012