架构师提供的文本描述。今年春天，位于加利福尼亚州洛斯阿尔托斯山(Los Altos Hills)的山脚学院(Foothill College)，位于加州硅谷的高科技中心，推出了新的物理科学与工程中心(PSEC)。由拉特克利夫设计，这一对具有历史意义和建筑意义的山麓学院的重大扩建，在一个三栋楼的综合体中提供了最先进的设施，该建筑群优雅地将校园本土建筑与当今学习环境所需的高科技设计解决方案结合在一起。

Text description provided by the architects. This spring, Foothill College, located in Los Altos Hills, California, in the high-tech heart of California’s Silicon Valley, unveiled its new Physical Sciences and Engineering Center (PSEC). Designed by Ratcliff, this major expansion to the historic and architecturally significant Foothill College delivers state-of-the-art facilities in a three-building complex that graciously marries the campus vernacular architecture with high-tech design solutions required by today’s learning environments.

Foothill的PSEC具有集成的教学技术和教室，最先进的实验室和设备和签名艺术装置.该综合体包含多个可持续的功能，旨在加强学生的学习，并目标是达到LEED银牌评级。教室的设计注重灵活性、积极学习、智能技术集成和自然光照。

Foothill’s PSEC features integrated instructional technology and classrooms, state-of-the-art laboratories and equipment and signature art installations. The complex incorporates multiple sustainable features designed to enhance student learning and is on target to achieve LEED® Silver rating. Classrooms were designed with a focus on flexibility, active learning, smart technology integration and natural daylight.

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该中心还设有山麓学院科学中心。

The center also houses the Foothill College Science & Learning Institute (SLI), which promotes an innovative instructional model drawing on educational research and best practices to support successful teaching and learning of STEM-related content.

“Foothill有潜力成为社区学院的加州理工学院，我们的新PSEC和它支持的STEM课程是我们的目标的关键部分，我们的目标是让受过良好教育的学生进入硅谷的劳动力市场，”Foothill物理科学，数学说。

“Foothill has the potential to be the CalTech of community colleges, and our new PSEC and the STEM curricula it supports are a key part of our goal to deliver better educated students into the Silicon Valley workforce,” said Foothill Physical Sciences, Mathematics & Engineering Division Dean Peter Murray, M.S. “The Ratcliff team were excellent collaborators with the college, and the results of that collaboration are evident: The PSEC is more than just another building, it is a locale dedicated to interdisciplinary teaching and applied learning.”

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五十年前，山麓是一片由起伏的山丘组成的空白画布。由Ernest J.Kump和Masten设计

Fifty years ago, Foothill was a blank canvas of rolling hills. Designed by Ernest J. Kump and Masten & Hurd, in collaboration with landscape architect Peter Walker, the campus was constructed in 1961. The completed campus won numerous accolades for design excellence. The American Institute of Architects bestowed the campus its highest honor award in 1962 and an award of merit in 1963. In 1980, the campus received a special commendation from the AIA for “excellence in design that has stood the test of time.” The new project is receiving its own share of design awards, including the AIA East Bay’s highest honor award, presented September 19. (An awards listing follows.)

“以与现有校园无缝融合为目标，从外部看，设计审美是刻意的语境。一旦进入主庭院，新材料和细节就会宣布一种更现代的建筑表达方式，反映出为21世纪学习者提供新的STEM设施的目标。“拉特克利夫的首席建筑师威廉·布莱辛说。

“With the goal of blending seamlessly with the existing campus, the design aesthetic is deliberately contextual when viewed from without. Once within the main courtyard, new materials and detailing announce a more modern architectural expression, reflective of the goal of providing a new STEM facility for 21st century learners.” said William Blessing, principal architect with Ratcliff.

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这个56，000平方英尺的PSEC由三个独立的展馆组成-教室、实验室和公共空间-住房工程、化学、物理和纳米技术部门。这三座建筑齐头并进，与历史悠久的校园毫不费力地融合在一起。

The 56,000 square foot PSEC comprises three separate pavilions–Classroom, Laboratory and Commons-- housing Engineering, Chemistry, Physics and Nanotechnology departments. The three buildings together harmonize and integrate effortlessly with the historic campus.

教室和实验室建筑的设计是从独树一帜的一层展馆的独特类型演变而来的，其屋顶深深地悬挂在原来的校园中。反过来，新展馆重新诠释了现有的建筑，将倾斜的木摇屋顶与铰接式屋顶梁和宽大的屋顶悬垂结合起来，并在庭院一侧引入了一个新的木墙板雨屏系统，即周边的木墙板和超高性能混凝土(UHPC)面板。

The design for the classroom and laboratory buildings evolved directly from the distinctive typology of the onestory pavilions with deep roof overhangs found throughout the original campus. In turn, the new pavilions reinterpret the existing by incorporating sloped wood shake roofs with articulated roof beams and generous roof overhangs and introducing a new rain screen system of wood siding, on the perimeter, and Ultra High Performance Concrete (UHPC) panels, on the courtyard side.

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下议院的建筑让人联想起一个更现代的和弦；有一个玻璃和金属棚屋顶，一个宽敞的店面通往一个有盖的露台，还有一个陶土雨幕，让人想起在主校园里发现的砖头。这座建筑有一套可连接的弹性空间-咖啡厅、休息室和会议室-沿着面向庭院的西面店面墙。这一高度灵活的空间可以完全开放到一个外部“房间”在一个图案玻璃遮阳屋顶，提供了一个巨大的社会空间，以支持各种学校和社区的功能。

The Commons building strikes a more modern chord; with a glass and metal shed roof, an expansive storefront opening to a covered patio, and a terra cotta rain screen, evocative of the brick found on the main campus. This building has a connectable set of flex spaces – the café, lounge and conference room - along the west storefront wall facing the courtyard. This highly flexible space can be fully opened to an exterior “room” under a patterned glass shade roof providing a large social space to support various school and community functions.

在这座历史悠久的校园里，新的36，400平方英尺的科学园是新展馆的组织要素，也就是山麓学生现在随意聚集或参加计划活动的地方。该中心还包括一个较低的广场，由一个标志性的Corten钢护套电梯塔锚定，宣布新的校园扩建，并创建一个直接连接周界环路到内部校园。

As evidenced in the historic campus, a new 36,400 square foot Science Courtyard is the organizational element for the new pavilions, the place where Foothill students now congregate casually or attend planned events. The center also includes a lower plaza anchored by an iconic Corten-steel-sheathed elevator tower that announces the new campus expansion and creates a direct link across the perimeter Loop Road to the inner campus.

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该方案的费用约为4 160万美元，由措施C提供资金，该措施是2006年由Foothill DeAnza社区学院区的选民批准的一种资本改进债券。

The PSEC, which cost approximately $41.6 million, was funded by Measure C, a capital improvement bond approved in 2006 by voters in the Foothill DeAnza Community College District.

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Architects Ratcliff

Location Foothill College, 12345 El Monte Road, Los Altos Hills, CA 94022, USA

Category University

Program Manager Gilbane Building Co.

Project Year 2013

Photographs David Wakely

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