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架构师提供的文本描述。杜兰大学(Tulane University)位于新奥尔良市中心，是一个内陆的开放校园，它想要在一个非常紧张的场地上建造一座能容纳3万人的足球场-事实上，在校园最狭窄的地方。耗资7200万美元的尤尔曼体育场坐落在杜兰体育馆的中心地带。它提供了一个新的体育四合院的背景，同时连接到现有的赫兹和威尔逊中心。工程于2013年初开始，2015年初完工。这座新体育场标志着40年来第一次在杜兰校园举行足球比赛。它已经成为人们对杜兰足球计划重新产生兴趣的催化剂，成功地带回了一代失去的球迷。

Text description provided by the architects. Tulane University, a landlocked, open space-challenged campus in the heart of Uptown New Orleans, wanted to build a 30,000-capacity football stadium on an exceptionally tight site – in fact, at the narrowest point on the campus. The new $72 million Yulman Stadium nests itself into the heart of the Tulane’s athletics precinct. It provides a backdrop to a new athletics quadrangle while connecting to the existing Hertz and Wilson Centers. Construction began in early 2013 and was completed in early 2015. The new stadium marks the first time in 40 years that football is being played on Tulane’s campus. It has become a catalyst for renewed interest in the Tulane football program, successfully bringing back a generation of lost fans.

杜兰的校友基地遍布全球。每年，数千名以前的学生和朋友回到新奥尔良和学校，作为临时访客或参加特定的大学活动。体育比赛，特别是足球比赛，成为这种重新联系的巨大催化剂。自从1974年前一座体育场被拆除以来，杜兰的足球队就在超级穹顶(Super穹顶)进行校外比赛，这是一个为了满足大学足球队的需要而过度扩张的设施，不适合加强团队精神。从60，000个座位的超级穹顶到3万座的尤尔曼体育场，绿波球迷可以在更亲密的环境中为他们的球队喝彩，同时也会给他们提供一个尾随体验。从设计过程一开始，设计团队就有了一个真正的口号：“只在杜兰。只在新奥尔良。“新体育场使用现代建筑词汇来庆祝杜兰装饰的体育历史和传统，这一词汇将新旧结合在一起。

Tulane’s alumni base is spread internationally. Each year thousands of former students and friends return to New Orleans and the school as casual visitors or participants in specific university activities. Athletic competitions, football games in particular, become great catalysts for this reconnection. Since the previous stadium was demolished in 1974, Tulane’s football team had played off-campus in the Superdome, a facility overscaled for the needs of a college football team and ill-suited to reinforcing team spirit. Moving from the 60,000-seat Superdome to the 30,000-seat Yulman Stadium gives Green Wave fans a more intimate environment to cheer on their team while also allowing for a tailgating experience. From the outset of the design process, the design team held true an underlying mantra, “Only at Tulane. Only in New Orleans.” The new stadium celebrates Tulane’s decorated athletic history and traditions using a modern architectural vocabulary that marries old and new.

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这所大学和建筑师古尔德·埃文斯在将新建筑安置在其场地上方面面临着相当大的挑战，这不仅是因为空间有限，而且也是因为紧邻该设施的奥杜邦大道和卡尔霍恩街走廊的关切。这些邻居带头封锁体育场的发展，理由是预期的噪音、光污染和体育场的规模是潜在的陷阱。建筑师们的反应是设计了一种设计，通过巧妙的操作将其视觉和物理的影响降到最低-体育场的四个侧面都对其直接的环境做出反应，并酌情放大或缩小。对上下文环境的敏感性也会影响与建筑质量和材料表达相关的设计决策。通过在西部保持低座位碗，并通过使用与该地区的居住性质密切相关的材料，以及种植和筛选元素，古尔德·埃文斯能够将体育场整合到具有历史意义的、低规模的住宅区结构中。

The university and architects Gould Evans faced considerable challenges in placing the new building onto its site, not only because of the restricted space, but also because of concerns by the Audubon Boulevard and Calhoun Street corridors immediately adjacent to the facility. These neighbors led an effort to blockade development of the stadium, citing anticipated noise, light-pollution and scale of the stadium as potential pitfalls. The architects responded with a design that minimizes its visual and physical impact through clever manipulation – each of the stadium’s four sides responds to its immediate context, scaling up or down as appropriate. Sensitivity to contextual conditions also influenced design decisions relative to architectural massing and material expression. By keeping the seating bowl low along the west, and through the use of materials that closely relate to the residential nature of the area along with planting and screening elements, Gould Evans was able to integrate the stadium within the historic, low-scale fabric of the Uptown Residential District.

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Architects Gould Evans

Location Ben Weiner Drive, New Orleans, LA 70118, United States

Category Football Stadium

Area 20000.0 ft2

Project Year 2014

Photographs Tim Griffith, Cory Fontenot