架构师提供的文本描述。这座建筑的位置-从一处深部场地内部的两条主要街道向后，卡在安·格林南剧院(AnGriannan)和休闲中心之间-需要一种特殊的形式和外观。由于它并不位于街道边缘，因此有机会创造一个新的城市结构层，即一条连接现有两条道路的新步道，使莱特肯尼不仅有一座新建筑，而且还拥有一片新的城市(下)结构。

Text description provided by the architects. The location of the building – set back from two main streets on the inside of a deep site and stuck between the An Griannan Theatre and the Leisure Centre – required a special approach to its form and its façade. As it is not located on a street edge there was a chance to create a new layer of urban structure, i.e. a new footpath connecting the two existing roads and giving Letterkenny not only a new building but a new patch of urban (infra) structure.

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区域文化中心(RCC)可从城市的不同地方看到：港口路和高级公路，以及从车站转弯处接近市中心的地方。它通过一个巨大的悬臂式画廊盒子，作为一个现代方尖碑来展示自己的形象，宣告在剧院背后的“未被发现的”情节中存在着一些重要的东西。由于它的方向，悬臂引导游客和行人从游泳池到建筑物的入口-或进一步的港口路。

The Regional Cultural Centre (RCC) is visible from different places in town: the Port Road and the High Road as well as approaching the town centre from the Station Roundabout. It makes itself visible through the big cantilevered gallery box acting as a modern day obelisk announcing the existence of something important on that slightly hidden so far “undiscovered” plot behind the theatre. Due to its direction the cantilever guides visitors and pedestrians approaching from the swimming pool to the entrance of the building – or further to the Port Road.

悬臂箱体包含建筑最重要的部分，艺术画廊。这在城市中是可见的，通过金色的墙，从建筑物内出现，覆盖了画廊的一个完整的侧面。面对西方，它反射出黄昏的光线，在入口处的地面上呈现出金色的光芒。这个270平方米的画廊提供了充足的高规格展览空间。两个大天窗突出在屋顶上的建筑物和一个灵活的照明系统，确保最佳的灯光条件，为不同的展览类型。

The cantilevered box contains the most important part of the building, the Art Gallery. This is made visible in the city through the golden wall that emerges from within the building covering a complete side of the gallery. Facing west it reflects the evening light and provides a golden glow on the ground at the entrance. This 270m2 gallery provides ample high-spec exhibition space. Two large skylights extruding over the roof of the building and a flexible lighting system ensure the best light conditions for different exhibition types.

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这座建筑正以多种方式与周围环境沟通。前场舞台般的2层门厅，其充分的玻璃前，作为一个中间空间之间的艺术和公众。它的后墙被设计为便于改变展览，路过的公众和艺术机构之间的接触实际上是不可避免的，从而打破了两者之间经常存在的无形的障碍。

The building is communicating to its surrounding in many ways. The proscenium stage-like 2-storey foyer with its fully glazed front, acts as an intermediate space between art and public. With its back wall designed to facilitate changing exhibitions, the contact of the passing public and the institution of art becomes literally unavoidable, thus breaking down an often existing invisible barrier between the two.

 Floor Plan

从入口区域有两条独立的路线通往文化中心的两个主要设施：一个下降的坡道将游客引向154个座位的黑匣子剧院，比入口低半层。突出的主楼梯-很明显地体现在正面-通向大楼的核心-艺术画廊。从一楼到屋顶的第二层楼梯-被称为天空楼梯-通向一个小型的亲密展览和沉思空间-一个由两个角落的窗户组成的遮蔽的天空盒，为大教堂尖顶和莱特肯尼及其公共服务中心提供框架视图。因此，新的农村信用社补充了管理、教会和文化总部的三角关系。艺术中心屋顶上的这个小空间也是莱特肯尼唯一可以俯瞰城市的地方。

From the entrance area there are two separate routes leading to the two main facilities of the Cultural Centre: a descending ramp leads the visitor towards the 154-seater black box theatre, half a level below the entrance level. The prominent main stairs – clearly expressed in the façade -lead up to the building’s core – the art gallery. The second stairs from the first floor to the roof level –called the sky stairs - leads to a small intimate exhibition and contemplation space – a sheltered sky-box defined by two corner windows providing framed views towards the Cathedral spire and Letterkenny with its Public Services Centre. Thus the new RCC complements the triangle of administration, ecclesiastical and cultural headquarter. This small space on the roof of the arts centre is also the only place in Letterkenny where one can get an elevated view over the town.

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这座建筑可以被看作是一个巨大的有机结构，它坐落在倾斜的地面上，与多尼格尔美丽的山脉像巨型动物一样从地面上生长出来的方式并没有什么不同。它是一个不同的，美丽的物体从地面上升和形状由一个同质的一块。外墙材料必须能够反映和支持墙和屋顶之间的模糊性。所选择的铝既适用于两种表面，同时又为这种有机结构提供了坚实的、适合其在城市、公共和文化环境中发挥作用的光泽。

The building can be perceived as a large organic structure, emerging from the sloping ground it sits on not dissimilar to the way Donegal’s beautiful mountains seem to grow out of the ground like giant animals. It is a different, beautiful object rising from the ground and being shaped from one homogenous piece. The material of the façade had to be able to reflect and support the ambiguity between wall and roof. The chosen aluminium is suitable for both surfaces and at the same time provides this organic structure with solidity and a glow appropriate to its function in an urban, public and cultural context.

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Architects MacGabhann Architects

Location Letterkenny, Co. Donegal, Ireland

Category Cultural Center

Design Team Antoin MacGabhann, Tarla MacGabhann, Nanni Grau, Niels Merschbrock

Area 1700.0 sqm

Project Year 2008

Photographs Dennis Gilbert