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架构师提供的文本描述。Waitrose是一个商业开发项目，位于切斯特市中心的一条主要干线上。该计划由百老汇·马利亚的利物浦总监马特·布鲁克(Matt Brook)设计，包括一家新的旗舰店Waitrose商店，以及一个完全整合的公共领域，包括横跨运河的一座新的人行桥。

Text description provided by the architects. Waitrose is a commercial development located on a key arterial route into Chester City Centre. The scheme, designed by Broadway Malyan’s Liverpool director, Matt Brook, comprises a new flagship Waitrose store together with a fully integrated public realm including a new pedestrian bridge across the canal.

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该项目与周边城市地形无缝融合的能力在于了解到，良好的超市设计的关键是促进地方的发展，其中不可或缺的是敏感的缩放、深思熟虑的几何图形和深思熟虑的物质性。

The project’s ability to blend seamlessly with the surrounding urban terrain is about understanding that the key to good supermarket design is the promotion of place - and integral to this is the importance of sensitive scaling, well-considered geometry and thoughtful materiality.

 First Floor Plan

一层平面图

该建筑和公共领域是作为切斯特商业区的南部门户的一部分而设计的，在运河的对岸，还包括一个额外的马特·布鲁克设计、完全同意的混合用途开发项目，其中包括切斯特的二级上市枪击塔*和以前的领导工程。

The building and public realm are designed as part of asouthern gateway to the Chester Business Quarter, which also includes, on the opposite side of the canal, an additional Matt Brook design, the fully consented mixed-use development incorporating Chester’s Grade II listed shot tower* and former leadworks.

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超市的集中坐落在一个优雅的柱廊配置，统一了整个方案，赋予它强大的公民存在。其三个主要正面的活动前沿与周围地区接触。这一点在其南面的海拔高度上尤为明显，在那里，一系列灵活的零售单元使布顿路沿线的街景充满活力。

The supermarket’s massing sits within an elegant colonnade configuration that unifies the entire scheme, giving it a strong civic presence. Active frontages along its three principal facades engage with the surrounding area. This is particularly evident on its south elevation where a series of flexible retail units animate the streetscape along Boughton Road. 

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在西面的立面上，建筑物的公共空间呈现为一条与旅客大厅平行的倾斜人行道。这使较低水平的停车场被隐藏，同时提供水平通道的新行人天桥，直接连接射击塔的发展和更广泛的切斯特中央总体规划。

On the west elevation, the building’s public realm presents itself as a sloped walkway that runs in parallel with the travelator hall. This allows the lower level car parking to be concealed, while providing level access to the new footbridge that links directly with the shot tower development and the wider Chester Central masterplan.

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超市和毗邻的人行道的具体路线，更重要的是增强了从布顿路拍摄塔的视野，从而为这座历史性的建筑提供了一个新的城市用途，作为火车站和切斯特商业区的寻路设备。

The specific alignment of the supermarket and the adjoining walkway, moreover, importantly enhance views of the shot tower from Boughton Road, thus providing this historic structure with a new urban purpose as a way-finding device for the train station and the Chester Business Quarter.

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该建筑的背景凭证进一步丰富了青铜金属包层，再加上表达的结构元素，参考了该遗址的工业遗产。此外，风化青铜的强烈、自然的颜色补充了邻近建筑物使用的砖块。

The building’s contextual credentials are further enriched by the bronze metal cladding, coupled with the expressed structural elements that reference the industrial heritage of the site. In addition, the strong, natural colour of the weathered bronze complements the brick used in the neighbouring buildings.

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从构造的角度来看，Waitrose储藏室是一个钢框架结构，第一层由预制空心核心混凝土板构成，上面有一个结构混凝土板。在建筑物外部表示的柱面和主要结构元素被设置在一个7.9米的结构网格上，并覆盖在板式青铜上，主要的高度被覆盖在穿孔的青铜薄板上，或者用带有穿孔的青铜垂直鳍的幕墙覆盖。两者垂直设置在主结构网格的1.128米网格子模块上。

From a tectonic standpoint, the Waitrose store is articulated as a steel frame construction with the first floor constructed from pre-cast hollow core concrete planks topped with a structural concrete screed. The colonnade and primary structural elements expressed on the exterior of the building are set out on a 7.9m structural grid and clad in sheet bronze, with the main elevations being clad in either perforated bronze sheets or glazed with a curtain wall capped with perforated bronze vertical fins. Both are set out vertically on a 1.128m grid sub-module of the primary structural grid.

 North Elevation

北立面图

从一开始，该项目就致力于减少建筑物的能源需求。例如，在西面立面的旅行大厅的设计和定位使它能够被动地加热商店；而在直射阳光最强烈的时期，使用挂在玻璃幕墙上的穿孔青铜翅片提供太阳能遮阳，从而减少了对空调系统的需求。此外，主公众入口大堂和旅游大堂的天然日光充足，减少了白天对人工照明的需求。

From the outset, the project was committed to reducing the energy demands of the building. The design and orientation of the travelator hall, on the west elevation, for example, allow it to passively heat the store; while the use of perforated bronze fins, attached to the glazed curtain wall mullions, provides solar shading during the most intense periods of direct sunlight, so reducing the demand on the air conditioning system. Furthermore, the abundance of natural daylight to the main public entrance lobbies and travelator hall reduces the requirement for artificial lighting during the day.

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在与地方规划当局广泛合作之后，2012年10月获得了详细的规划同意。建筑工程于2014年3月开始，Barr Construction公司于2014年11月按时完工。这个项目的客户是约翰·刘易斯合伙公司。Waitrose公司拥有2，756平方米的净销售商店面积、4.32亿平方米的额外零售空间和196个停车场空间。

Detailed planning consent was obtained in October 2012 following extensive collaboration with the local planning authority. Construction began in March 2014 and was completed, on schedule, by Barr Construction in November 2014. The clients for the project were the John Lewis Partnership. Waitrose comprises a 2,756m² net sales store area, 432m² additional retail space, and 196 car park spaces. 

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Architects Broadway Malyan

Location Chester, United Kingdom

Category Market

Design Team BREEAM Assessor - Synergy (Achieved BREEAM Excellent)

Project Architect Matt Brook

Area 2756.0 sqm

Project Year 2014

Photographs Edmund Sumner, Graeme Cooper