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架构师提供的文本描述。在2011年的一次建筑竞赛之后，Chevalier Morales建筑公司获得了扩大、重新设计和使老拉钦区图书馆符合要求的任务，该图书馆可以追溯到1974年。这个邻里图书馆不再满足用户和员工的需求，建筑师Stephan Chevalier和Sergio Morales把这个地方变成了21世纪的图书馆：吸引人、光彩照人、刺激人的谈话。该项目旨在获得LEED认证，并成为可持续发展原则的一个范例。

Text description provided by the architects. Following an architectural competition in 2011, the firm Chevalier Morales Architectes received the mandate to expand, redesign and bring to compliance the old Lachine borough library, dating back to 1974. This neighbourhood library not meeting user and employee needs anymore, the architects Stephan Chevalier and Sergio Morales made this location a 21stcentury library: attractive, luminous and stimulating conversation. The project aimed for a LEED certification as well as to be an example of sustainable development principles.

想象未来：

Imagining the future:

Chevalier Morales设想，如果实现和执行城市计划中提到的致密化、绿化和交通改善原则，图书馆及其邻里在20年后会变成什么样子。图书馆、停车场和帕特森公园会怎么样？该公司试图通过提出2031年可能的解决办法来促进这些原则的充实。

Chevalier Morales imagined what the library and its neighbourhood could become, in 20 years, if the densification, greening and transportation improvement principles mentioned in the urban plan were achieved and implemented. What would happen to the library, its parking lot and Patterson Park? The firm tried to contribute to the enrichment of these principles by proposing possible solutions for the year 2031.

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想象可能的未来，允许提出解决方案，并将某些程序功能，从长远来看，将减少成本和环境影响，同时避免降低图书馆的空间质量。例如，轻型进水口的战略位置，以考虑到预期的潜在扩张。将长期愿景结合在一起的发展将为拟议的设计带来更多的彻底性和相关性。设计方法力求全球性和渐进性；它提出了解决实际社会问题的途径，而不是停留在眼前的问题上。21世纪图书馆被认为是一个枢纽，因为一个密集而充满活力的地区发生了许多复杂的日常活动。

Imagining possible futures allowed to propose solutions and to place certain program functions that, in the long term, would reduce costs and environmental impacts while avoiding a decrease in the library’s spaces quality. For example, light inlets were strategically positioned to take into account a foreseen potential expansion. A development integrating a long term vision brings added thoroughness and relevance to the proposed design. The design approach seeks to be global and evolutionary; it proposes paths to address real societal issues instead of lingering on immediate issues. The 21st century library is imagined as a pivot for a dense and dynamic area were many mixed daily activities occur.

创意商店、入口和咖啡馆：

Ideas store, entrance and café:

人们还设想，作为一个创意商店，图书馆将从邻近的商业空间交通中受益，将自己定位在居民的日常路线上。图书馆入口处的位置，其中一个靠近咖啡厅，支持图书馆融入居民的日常漫游。这个咖啡馆的设计是为了使用户的体验更完整。现在图书馆的所有区域都可以吃和喝了。咖啡馆的露台一直延伸到十字路口。把21世纪的图书馆想象成一个密集和充满活力的部门的枢纽，每天都有许多混合活动，这对目前的项目来说是非常有益的，而且在长期的城市规划远景中也是经济上可行的。(鼓掌)

It was also imagined that, as an idea store, the library would benefit from neighbouring commercial space traffic by positioning itself in the residents’ daily route. The positioning of entrances to the library, with one close to the café, supports the integration of the library in the residents’ daily wandering. This café was designed to make the user’s experience complete. It is now possible to eat and drink in all areas of the library. The café’s patio extends onto the intersection. Imagining the 21st century library as a pivot for a dense and dynamic sector with many daily mixed activities appeared as highly beneficial for this current project as well as being economically viable in a long term urban planning vision.  

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从交易柜台转到贷款柜台：

From trading counter to loan counter:

尽管近年来随着新技术的出现和图书馆员传统角色的演变，借阅的目的迅速发生变化，但借阅柜台的规模大大缩小，仍然是图书馆作为一个特权互动场所的一个重点。贷款柜台被安置在主水平，在建筑物的中心，使它可以从所有地区可见，使它有可能看到整个内部空间以及。在缓缓坡道的底部，在咖啡厅前面，靠近垂直循环和青年图书馆入口，借阅台成为了该组合的组织枢纽。它由多功能和适应部门组成，散发出一种无障碍和开放的感觉。通过v2com。

Although its purpose has quickly evolved in recent years with the arrival of new technologies and the evolution of librarian’s traditional roles, the loan counter, greatly reduced in size, remains a focal point of the library as a privileged interaction location. The loan counter being positioned on the main level, in the heart of the building to allow it to be visible from all areas, makes it possible to see the entire interior space as well. At the bottom of the gentle gradient ramp, in front of the café, close to vertical circulations and to the youth library entrance, the loan counter becomes the ensemble’s organizational pivot.   It consists of multifunctional and adapted sectors that exude an impression of accessibility and openness. Via v2com.

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Architects Chevalier Morales Architectes

Location 3100 Rue Saint Antoine, Lachine, QC H8S 4E3, Canada

Category Library

Area 2650.0 sqm

Project Year 2015