架构师提供的文本描述。大众大学校园中心和图书馆的升级适应了当今不断变化的教学环境和维护和传播知识的新趋势。

Text description provided by the architects. The VUW Campus Hub and Library Upgrade responds to today’s changing pedagogical environment and new trends for maintaining and disseminating knowledge.

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认识到学习和社会功能不再是分开的，该项目改变了图书馆安全和非安全元素之间的界限，创造了与学习、社交和娱乐功能更大的重叠，并满足了学生对校园活动和设施的期望。

Recognising that learning and social functions are no longer separate, the project shifts the boundaries between secure and non-secure elements of the library creating a greater overlap with learning, social and recreational functions and meeting student expectations for on campus activities and amenities.

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整个项目的组成部分是提供升级的图书馆设施、社会、教学和学习空间、改进的零售设施、学生社会/保健和娱乐设施，以及高质量的中央室内和室外空间。

Integral to the overall project is the provision of upgraded library facilities, social, teaching and study spaces, improved retail facilities, student social/health care and recreational facilities, as well as a central indoor and outdoor space of high quality.

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在更广泛的背景下，该项目解决了对“前门”的需求，改进了与Kelburn游行的界面，并提高了整个校园的流通网络的可读性。重要的是，该项目克服了这一地区具有挑战性的地形和以前薄弱的连通性，为凯尔本校园建立了一个新的协调中心和中心：一个社会和学习活动可以围绕的中心。

Within the wider context, the project addresses the need for a ‘front door’, improves the interface with Kelburn Parade and increases legibility in the circulation network of the overall campus. Importantly, by overcoming both the challenging topography and previously poor connectivity in this precinct, the project establishes a new focal point and heart for the Kelburn Campus: a hub around which social and learning activities can revolve.

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校园中心整合了兰金布朗图书馆、新枢纽大楼和新蒂姆比格莱孔庭院的翻修，东斯特菲尔德和麦克劳林大楼的地面翻修。

The Campus Hub integrates the refurbishment of the Rankin Brown Library, the new Hub building and the new Tim Beaglehole Courtyard, with ground level refurbishments of Easterfield and Maclaurin Buildings.

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关键的设计干预措施是挖掘四方(位于伊斯特菲尔德大楼、麦克劳林讲演厅和兰金布朗图书馆之间)的场地，并拆除投射到这一空间的伊斯特菲尔德演讲厅。这一战略举措建立了一个连接凯尔本游行的新的、连续的地面飞机，并使校园这一区所有建筑物的地面水平保持一致，从而得以插入新的枢纽大楼，并创造了一个新的室外空间。

The key design intervention was to excavate the site of the Quad (between Easterfield Building, Maclaurin Lecture Theatres and Rankin Brown Library) and remove the Easterfield Lecture theatre which projected into this space. This strategic move established a new, continuous ground plane linking Kelburn Parade and, aligning the ground levels of all buildings in this sector of the campus, allowed the insertion of the new Hub building and the creation of a new outdoor space.

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“伟大的房间”是一个巨大的一楼，双高度的空间，在枢纽。它汇集了毗邻的图书馆、讲堂和新的零售空间的活动，为学生提供了以学生为中心的社会和非正式学习活动以及大型聚会和活动的空间。新的阅览室位于学生空间之上，象征着枢纽的社会功能和学习功能的结合。

The ‘Great Room’ is a large ground floor double height space in the Hub. It brings together the activities of the adjoining library, lecture theatres and new retail spaces, providing a student focused space for social and informal learning activities, as well as large gatherings and events. The new Reading Room projects over the student space, symbolically interlocking both social and learning functions of the Hub.

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直接打开新的蒂姆比格莱洞庭院，“伟大的房间”和庭院创造了室内和室外空间的结对，这是大学社交和学习活动的核心。大型自动滑动门允许两个空间无缝合并。

Opening directly onto the new Tim Beaglehole Courtyard, the ‘Great Room’ and courtyard create a pairing of indoor and outdoor spaces a nucleus for the social and learning activities of the University. Large automated sliding doors allow both spaces to seamlessly merge.

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图书馆是校园中心的一个组成部分，并重新配置，以开放和积极参与新的中心。大量使用的藏品以及非正式的和团体的研究区域被转移到Rankin Brown的较低水平，在那里更大的地板允许更灵活和可选择的学习配置。安全门槛的改变使图书馆能够在中心内提供更多的服务和学习功能，补充社会学习活动并加强空间的活力。

The Library is an integral part of the Campus Hub and is reconfigured to open into and actively engage with the new Hub. High use collections as well as informal and group study areas are relocated to the lower levels of Rankin Brown, where larger floor plates allow for more flexible and alternative learning configurations. A shift in the security threshold enables the Library to provide more services and learning functions within the Hub, complementing social learning activities and strengthening the vitality of the space.

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整个校园的关键连接集中在枢纽，渗透到周边和边缘的“伟大的房间”。新旧并置提供了简洁和清晰的空间，支持寻找方法，并为一流的学生体验提供环境。

Key connections across campus come together in the Hub, permeating the perimeter and edges of the ‘Great Room’. The clear juxtaposition of old and new offers simplicity with spatial clarity, supporting way finding and providing the environment for a first class student experience

Architects Architectus, Athfield Architects

Location Wellington, New Zealand

Category Refurbishment

Area 13000.0 sqm

Project Year 2013

Photographs Paul McCredie