Jesuit Community Center at Fairfield University Gray Organschi Architecture

2014-04-07 01:00

 © Robert Benson Photography

罗伯特·本森摄影

 © Robert Benson Photography

罗伯特·本森摄影

费尔菲尔德大学的耶稣会士要求我们为他们的社区设计一个家，为他们的宗教使命设计一个中心，并提供一种能够反映他们对简单、灵性和知性的承诺的建筑。耶稣会士认识到他们作为教师和精神向导的特殊作用，他们寻求的建筑不仅能满足他们自己的迫切需要，而且可能成为生态建筑的典范。

The Jesuits at Fairfield University asked us to design a home for their community and a center for their religious mission and to provide an architecture that would reflect their commitment to simplicity, spirituality and intellectualism. Aware of their special role as teachers and spiritual guides, the Jesuits sought a building that would not only provide for their own immediate needs, but might serve as an exemplar of ecological architecture.

 © Robert Benson Photography

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与耶稣会社区和大学规划师合作，我们在校园中心开发了一个占地2万平方英尺的住宅和使徒中心。这座建筑里住着耶稣会牧师和他们的耶稣会士，还有外宾、行政办公室、礼拜堂、社区餐厅、大房间和图书馆，不仅是耶稣会教徒的家，也是耶稣会区社区的一个基地，也是耶稣会在费尔菲尔德校园历史存在的象征。该遗址既突出又可爱，是一个陡峭的山坡，南面环绕着巨大的成熟的欧洲山毛榉树，远眺长岛海峡。

Working with the Jesuit Community and University planners, we developed a 20,000 square foot residence and apostolic center at the heart of the campus. The building houses resident Jesuit priests and their Jesuit and lay guests, administrative offices, a chapel, community dining room, great room, and library, providing not only a home to the Jesuit men but a base for the regional Jesuit community and a symbol of the Jesuits’ historical presence on the Fairfield campus. The site is prominent and lovely, a steeply sloping hillside bounded to the south by enormous mature European beech trees which frame distant views to Long Island Sound.

 Floor Plan

中心坐落在斜坡的肩膀上，它的社区空间被安排在花园屋顶的低矮平面下，从上面的毕业草坪上可以看到，不受干扰，除了照亮教堂的大监视器之外，教堂是建筑的精神中心。在东面的校园一侧，建筑的立面是一个简单的社区表现形式，一个公共入口门廊，教堂的祭坛墙，以及社区大房间的大窗户。在客流量较少的西边，男式房间可以获得隐私和南边的景色，同时还环绕着一座由男性和他们的客人共享的庭院花园。

The Center sits on the shoulder of the slope, its community spaces organized beneath the low plane of a garden roof, visible from the Graduation lawn above it, and uninterrupted except by the large monitor that lights the chapel, the spiritual heart of the building. To the eastern campus side, the building’s elevation presents a simple expression of the community, a public entry porch, the altar wall of the chapel, and the large windows of the community great room. To the less trafficked western side, the men’s rooms gain privacy and southerly views, while enclosing a courtyard garden shared by the men and their guests.

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该设计促进了综合社会中心、宗教避难所和家庭的平滑功能，并优化了建筑的环境性能。可操作的窗户促进了自然交叉通风，减少了机械设备的负荷。大型玻璃面板允许冬季阳光照射在深色抛光混凝土地板上，吸收太阳能，并均匀地将其温暖辐射到建筑物内部。自然日光会淹没公共空间、办公室。和卧室，大大减少了对电照明的需求。可回收或可再生材料沿建筑物表面排列。

The design promotes the smooth function of a combined social center, religious sanctuary, and home and also optimizes the building’s environmental performance.  Operable windows promote natural cross ventilation and reduce mechanical equipment loads.  Large glazed panels admit winter sunlight onto dark polished concrete floors that absorb solar energy and evenly radiate its warmth throughout the building’s interiors.  Natural daylight floods communal spaces, offices, and bedrooms, dramatically reducing the need for electric illumination. Recycled or renewable materials line the building’s surfaces.

 © Robert Benson Photography

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我们创新的外墙系统最大限度地提高了隔热性能，通过结构构件降低了热导率和热损失，并通过冷凝和水分控制，确保了建筑围护结构的耐久性。该建筑的基础悬垂，保护环绕它的巨型山毛榉树的根系，并在炎热的夏季将其南面的窗户遮荫。

Our innovative exterior wall system maximizes insulation, reduces thermal conductivity and heat loss through structural members, and ensures the durability of the building envelope through condensation and moisture control.  The building overhangs its foundations, protecting the root systems of the giant beech trees that surround it and shade its southerly windows during hot summer months.

除了这些经过时间考验的尽量减少能源消耗、最大限度地提高建筑物居民舒适度和加强与户外联系的做法之外，新技术还提高了建筑物的性能。社区空间上方的花园屋顶控制和过滤雨水，减少热量损失。一个封闭的地热采暖和冷却系统，由停车场下面的15口井提供能量，为建筑物提供能源，没有化石燃料。最终，传统场地和建筑设计都是“最佳做法”。

In addition to these time-tested practices for minimizing energy consumption, maximizing the comfort of the building’s inhabitants and enhancing their connection to the outdoors, new technologies increase the building’s performance.  A garden roof above the community spaces controls and filters storm water, reduces heat loss, and increases the durability of the roof membrane beneath it.  A closed-loop geothermal heating and cooling system, fed by fifteen wells beneath the parking area, provides energy to the building without fossil fuels.  Ultimately, both traditional site and building design “best practices”.