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架构师提供的文本描述。水手港自20世纪30年代起就一直呼吁在纽约公共图书馆设立分支机构。

Text description provided by the architects. Mariners Harbor had been calling for a branch of the New York Public Library since the 1930s.

该地区有着丰富的海洋和牡蛎历史，居民的迫切需求包括求职、计算机/多媒体访问和培训、校外支持、聚集空间以及图书馆作为图书储存库的传统功能。

The area has a rich maritime and oystering history, and the residents' critical needs include job search, computer/multimedia access and training, after-school support, gathering spaces, as well as the library's traditional function as a book repository.

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这座位于密集树叶中的住宅和工业街区之间的新建筑，其不对称的两体形式来自于裂开的牡蛎壳的生物形象，它的屋顶粗糙的外表掩盖了里面鲜亮的知识珍珠。

The new building, sited between residential and industrial blocks amid dense foliage, derives its asymmetrical two-volume form from the biological image of a cracked-open oyster shell, its roof's rough exterior concealing the bright pearls of knowledge within.

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从南大街可以到达，它的计划通过融入社区环境，最大限度地扩大了场地的规模，使其易于接近和欢迎。

Accessible from South Avenue, its plan maximizes site scale through integration into the neighborhood context, making it accessible and welcoming.

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图书馆藏书的轻微变化和弯曲创造了一个好客的入口，并向其内部过渡。在那里，包含阅读空间的更大的卷和包含支持功能的较小的卷沿着连接所有服务的开放的、玻璃化的中央循环脊柱组织起来。主入口处设有带视听设备的社区房，后花园内设有露台，有本地植被和成熟的树木，供顾客享用。

The slight shift and bending of the library’s volumes create a hospitable entry and transition to its interior. There, a larger volume containing reading spaces, and a smaller volume containing support functions are organized along an open, glazed, central circulation spine linking all services. A community room with audiovisual equipment is accessible at the main entrance, while a terrace in the back garden, with native vegetation and mature trees, is available for patrons’ enjoyment.

知识作为启蒙的隐喻是通过充足的玻璃和日光来实现的，它提供了一个适应性强、民主的、完全受欢迎的环境，非常适合21世纪图书馆作为其社区的学术和社会支柱的角色。

The metaphor of knowledge as enlightenment is literalized through ample glazing and daylight, providing an adaptable, democratic, and altogether welcoming environment, well suited to the 21st-century library's role as its community's academic and social anchor.

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Architects A*PT ARCHITECTURE

Location Mariners Harbor, Staten Island, NY, United States

Category Library

Design Team Anna Torriani, AIA; Lorenzo Pagnamenta, AIA; Wasmiya Tan; Raffaele Stefani; Damien Romanens; Nam Suk Oh; Juan Carlos Salas Ballestin; Caterina Inderbitzin; Petya Ivanova; Felix Lederberger; Roxane Bervini; Anais Iglesias; Nuria Forques.

Area 10000.0 ft2

Project Year 2014

Photographs Albert Vecerka / Esto