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架构师提供的文本描述。这个多用途的研究和协作空间是为剑桥麻省理工学院校园附近的技术广场中心的学生、教师和技术人员开发的。Beaver Works是麻省理工学院林肯实验室和麻省理工学院工程学院的联合中心，它作为一个工作空间，展示学生和教职员工开发和测试纳入国防组合的想法的场所。除了一个研究实验室，这个空间还包括一个咖啡厅/休息区、会议室和一个原型店，在那里，附属公司可以进行设计/建造研究项目。

Text description provided by the architects. This multi-use research and collaboration space was developed for students, faculty, and technical professionals in the Tech Square hub near MIT’s campus in Cambridge. Beaver Works, a joint center for MIT Lincoln Laboratory and MIT School of Engineering, serves as a work space and showcase where students and faculty develop and test ideas for incorporation into the National Defense portfolio. Along with a research lab, the space incorporates a café/lounge area, meeting rooms, and a prototyping shop, where affiliates can carry out design/build research projects.

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除了通过制造设施满足项目的基本功能要求外，建筑师们还利用高度灵活的定制设计元素和多层透明度来解决空间的主要功能：用一种建筑语言吸引和保留创新的思想家，从而使研究人员之间能够协作，鼓励偶然的社会接触，并激发创造性思维。

In addition to meeting the basic functional requirements of the project with fabrication facilities, Merge Architects utilized highly flexible custom design elements and multi-layered transparency to address the primary function of the space: to attract and retain innovative thinkers with an architectural language that enables collaboration between researchers, encourages serendipitous social encounters, and galvanizes creative thinking.

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该项目的主要社会节点是咖啡厅/休息区，它是实验室、教室和入口之间的枢纽。从咖啡厅和休息室空间雕刻出的楔形透明入口区模糊了公共和私人之间的界限，将走廊的公共空间延伸到咖啡馆，并为无窗的多租户走廊提供日光和室外景观。同样，穿孔的窗户提供走廊和安全的实验室区域之间的视图。

The primary social node of the project is the café/lounge area which serves as a hub between the laboratory, classrooms, and entry way. A wedge-shaped transparent entry zone carved out of the café and lounge space blurs the boundary between public and private, extending the public space of the hallway into the café, and providing daylight and views to the outdoors for the windowless multi-tenant corridor. Similarly, punched windows provide views between the corridor and the secured lab area.

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厨房岛、酒吧区和宽敞的休息室座位为社交和思想交流提供了便利。整个空间的定制磨坊都是由Radiatta松木建造的，这是一种普通的材料，通常用来支撑更昂贵的木材，但这里的设计是为了使其杂色结的图形质量和着色效果达到最大。

A kitchen island, bar area, and ample lounge seating facilitate socializing and the exchange of ideas. The custom millwork throughout the space is constructed from Radiatta pine, a modest material typically used as a backer for more expensive wood, but here is deployed for the graphic quality of its variegated knots and coloring to maximum effect.

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合并建筑师设计和组装两个主要的设计元素在休息室和实验室，一个会议吊舱和毡吊灯，实现多方面的形式与数字建模，数控铣削和手工装配。Merge在整个设计和施工过程中与一位制造顾问RadLab密切合作，协助创建一个制造模型，并在现场进行组装和整理。

Merge Architects designed and assembled the two primary design elements in the lounge and laboratory, a meeting pod and felt pendant lights, realizing the faceted forms with a combination of digital modelling, CNC-milling, and hand-crafted assembly. Merge worked closely throughout the design and construction process with RadLab, a fabrication consultant, assisting with the creation of a fabrication model and in the field with assembly and finishing.

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在咖啡厅/休息室和实验室空间之间有一个大的玻璃窗口，用于多种用途：它划定了实验室的安全区域，模糊了休息室和实验室之间的界限，并作为书写的表面。实验室空间配备了定制设计和组装的移动家具，提供灵活的存储和工作空间，以实现协作。同样，教室空间配备了可移动的桌椅和可操作的隔间，以容纳广泛的功能。

A large glass window between the café/lounge and lab space serves multiple ends: it delineates a secured zone for the lab, blurs the boundary between lounge and laboratory, and performs as a surface for writing. The lab space is outfitted with custom designed and fabricated mobile furniture, providing flexible storage and work space to enable collaboration. Similarly, the classroom spaces are outfitted with mobile tables and chairs as well as operable partitions to accommodate a wide range of functions.

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Architects Merge Architects

Location 300 Tech Square, 300, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA

Category Interiors Architecture

Architect in Charge Elizabeth Whittaker

Project Architect Anne-Sophie Divenyi

Area 4875.0 ft2

Project Year 2013

Photographs John Horner Photography , David Bragdon