架构师提供的文本描述。一个向大学开放的协调设施：位于圭亚那大学校园中心的大学图书馆的建设必须成为大学内部的一个动力，并为其区域光辉作出贡献。它是构成圭亚那大学校园的所有建筑的结构设施：它的使命是在一个独特的专门知识的地方收集书籍和读者，这是大学内一个开放和慷慨的地方。它是关于提供高质量的文化和文献服务，并体现区域社区的形象，因此，主要问题之一是使大学图书馆的建设具有实际、社会和象征性的特征，这将影响到社区和城市的形象。

Text description provided by the architects. A coordinating facility, open to the University: The building of the University Library, located at the heart of the Guyanese University Campus has to be a driving force within the University and contribute to its regional radiance. It is a structuring facility for all the buildings that constitute the Guyanese University Campus : its vocation is to gather books and readers in a unique place dedicated to knowledge, an open and generous place within the University. It is about providing a cultural and documentary service of quality and also materialise the image of the regional community, therefore one of the main issues is to give to the building of the University Library a physical, social and symbolic identity that will impact the one of the neighbourhood and of the city.

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乔纳森·卡奇亚(JonathanCacchia)

我们的目标是为这座独特的建筑提供它的项目和中心位置，一个适当的建筑-它的容量和它的用途可以识别-结合到一个开放的整个大学。

Our aim is to give to this unique building for its program and its central position, a proper architecture – identifiable by its volumetry and its uses – combined to an opening upon the whole University.

 © Jonathan Cacchia

乔纳森·卡奇亚(JonathanCacchia)

在对阴影的赞美中

IN Praise OF SHADOWS

围绕着大楼和大学中心的一个画廊：主要的建筑选择是创造一个开放的周边空间：不像一件没有与周围对话的建筑，建筑被一个被称为“走廊”或“蠕动”的不同尺寸的周边空间所包围。这个画廊是一个开放的空间，是学生们见面和经过的地方，里面和外面有一个额外的房间，有遮挡阳光和雨水的地方。

A gallery around the building and at the heart of the University: The main architectural choice is the creation of an open peripheral space : unlike a construction cast in one piece with no dialogue with the surrounding, the building is wrapped up with a peripheral space of variable dimensions called “gallery” or peristyle. This gallery is an open space, a place where the students meet and pass through, an extra room between inside and outside, sheltered from sun and rain.

 © Jonathan Cacchia

乔纳森·卡奇亚(JonathanCacchia)

额外的财富，流动形成了一个交换的地方，一个被占领的公共空间-甚至是“公众空间”-把图书馆和大学的其他地方连接起来：图书馆是一个学习的地方，与世界其他地方没有隔绝，要了解大学校园的生活，只需在阅读桌旁抬起头来，看一看画廊里的交通和活动。这是一个过滤器：一个斜坡的木制花边小心地放置在一个混凝土的核心。

Additional wealth, the peristyle forms a place to exchange, a public space taken over – and even “the space for the public” – which connects the library to the rest of the University : the library is a place for studying that is not cut off from the rest of the world, all it takes to see the life of the University Campus is to look up when sitting at a reading table and have a look at the traffic and motions in the gallery. This one is made of a filter : a slope of wooden lace carefully placed around a concrete core.

 © Jean-Michel André

c.Jean-Michel André

职能组织

FUNCTIONAL ORGANISATION

图书馆被认为是一个开放的空间，有广阔的接待空间，多样的阅读和研究空间，以及借阅书籍的可能性。它也是一个传统文件和现代技术相结合的设施。大楼由两部分组成：一是接待公众，另一是保留给行政和技术室。专门为公众服务的空间位于底层和阁楼；底层和高层的管理人员。露台和裂缝标志着这种分离，改善了建筑中心的照明。

The library is considered as an open space, with wide reception spaces, diverse reading and research spaces and the possibility of lending books. It is also a facility that combines traditional documentation and modern technologies. The building is composed of 2 parts : one that receives the public and one reserved for administration and its technical rooms. The spaces dedicated to the public are located on the ground floor and on the mezzanine ; the ones for the administration on the  ground floor and the upper level. Patios and rifts mark this dissociation and improve the lighting at the centre of the building.

 Ground Floor Plan