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架构师提供的文本描述。随着这座建筑的增加，世界上最负盛名的艺术和科学机构之一的哥伦比亚大学，大大扩展了它在跨学科科学研究方面的能力。这座建筑位于1897年由麦金、米德和怀特设计的大学历史悠久的晨边高地校园的西北角。它增加了大约4.500平方米的实验室空间和2.000平方米的教室、办公室和学习空间。它还包括一个1.300平方米的研究图书馆，一个有170个座位的礼堂，一个公共咖啡馆和一个大学篮球和排球体育馆的新入口。

Text description provided by the architects. With the addition of this building, Columbia University, one of the world’s most prestigious institutions for arts and sciences, greatly expands its capabilities in an interdisciplinary approach to scientific research. The building is located on the Northwest corner of the University’s historic Morningside Heights Campus designed by McKim, Mead and White in 1897. It adds approximately 4.500 m2 of laboratory space and 2.000 m2 of classroom, office and study space. It also includes a 1.300 m2 research library, a 170-seat auditorium, a public café and a new entrance to the University’s Basketball and Volleyball Gymnasium.

在现有的弗朗西斯S.莱维恩体育馆(Francis S.Levien Gymnasium)之上建造的场地条件提出了一个重大的结构挑战，要求新建筑跨越125英尺宽的设施，同时为实验室维护大的开放式地板，这些实验室的结构板必须足够坚硬，以便使用显微镜和其他振动敏感设备。

Constructed above the existing Francis S. Levien Gymnasium, the site conditions posed a significant structural challenge requiring that the new building span over the 125 foot wide facility, while maintaining large open floors for laboratories, whose structural slabs needed to be stiff enough for the use of microscopes and other vibration-sensitive equipment.

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这一结构壮举成了该项目的决定性姿态。通过采用平行于框架单元的铝片表示建筑立面上的结构框架，设计揭示了支撑单元在所产生的光和影的拼凑过程中的各种几何形状，即鳍的“颗粒”在三个可能的“位置”之间移动。该建筑的校园正面几乎完全是玻璃，揭示了建筑的内部运作，强调开放和与校园社区的联系。

This structural feat became the defining gesture of the project. By representing the structural frame on the building façade through the application of aluminum fins oriented in parallel to the frame elements, the design reveals the varied geometry of bracing elements in the resultant patchwork of light and shadow as the “grain” of the fins shifts between the three possible “positions”. The building's campus facade is almost entirely glass, revealing the interior workings of the building and emphasizing openness and a connection to the campus community.

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除了为大学提供重要的规划空间外，这座建筑还形成了通往晨边校园的新门户，在其北端，在街角和校园层之间的一条小路上，有一系列明亮自然照明的空间，高度约为10米。所有这些都适合与电梯核心和服务轴在一个有限的足迹，在这一地区，没有被占用的体育馆。

Besides providing critical program spaces for the University, the building also forms a new gateway to the Morningside Campus, incorporating in its northern end a fluid sequence of brightly and naturally-lit spaces along a path between the street corner and the Campus level some 10 meters higher. All this is fit alongside elevator cores and service shafts within a constrained footprint in the area not occupied by the gymnasium.

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作为RafaelMoneo的项目设计架构师，MoneoBrocStudio在设计过程的各个阶段管理项目。2010年12月完成

Working as the Project Design Architect with Rafael Moneo, Moneo Brock Studio managed the project through all stages of the design process. Completed December 2010

Architects Rafael Moneo Arquitecto + Moneo Brock Studio

Location Broadway y 120th Streett, New York, NY 10010, United States

Category Extension

Design Architect Rafael Moneo Valles Arquitecto, Belen Moneo and Jeff Brock

Moneo Brock Studio project team Benjamin Llana, Spencer Leaf, Andrés Barron

Associate Architect Davis Brody Bond, New York, NY, U.S.A. William Paxson, Partner-in-Charge

DBBA project team Mayine Lynn Yu, David Haft, Fernando Hausch-Fen, Gene Sparling, Mario Samara, Clover Linne, Dohhee Zhoung, Veronique Ross, y James Paxson

Project Management Columbia University Facilities – Capital Project Management

Area 188000.0 ft2

Project Year 2010

Photographs Michael Moran