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架构师提供的文本描述。在通往校园的新门槛上，克里希纳·P·辛格纳米技术中心(Krishna P.Singh Center for NanoTechnology)将把目前核桃街的“乏味的挑战”变成一个标志性的、欢迎的新门户，展示校园的知识活力及其学生和教师的创新活动。

Text description provided by the architects. Poised at a new threshold to campus, the Krishna P. Singh Center for Nanotechnology will transform the current “uninspiring gauntlet” of Walnut Street into an iconic and welcoming new gateway indicating the intellectual vitality of campus and the innovative activity of its students and faculty.

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这座建筑位于核桃街3200街区的北侧，毗邻东面通往大学的一条主要通道。作为校园入口最重要的主要学术建筑，新中心将代表大学城内校园的存在，并传达宾大作为全球科研和教育领导者的作用。建筑和景观将提供一个优雅的过渡到学术环境，并庆祝大学的承诺，它的西费城附近。

The building location, the north side of the 3200 block of Walnut Street, sits adjacent to a major approach to the University from the east. As the foremost major academic building at this entrance to campus, the new Center will represent the presence of the Campus within University City and communicate the role of Penn as a global leader in scientific research and education. The building and landscape will provide a graceful transition to the academic environment and celebrate the commitment of the University to its West Philadelphia neighborhood.

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大学和费城都有围绕开放四合院组织建筑的传统。实验室建筑通常是围绕着中央走廊组织起来的，几乎没有公共空间。纳米技术中心把实验室集中在一个中心四边形，向大学的景观开放科学，并为互动提供一个新的室内/室外开放空间。

Both the University and Philadelphia have a tradition of organizing buildings around open quads. Laboratory buildings are typically organized around a central corridor and afford little public space. The Center for Nanotechnology focuses the laboratories around a central quad, opening the Sciences to the University landscape and providing a new indoor/outdoor open space for interaction.

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克里希纳·P·辛格纳米技术中心(KrishnaP.Singh Center for NanoTechnology)是一个新的多层次交叉路口，它标志着该大学在新兴纳米技术领域的领导地位迈出了重要一步。新的78，000平方英尺的设施将拥有最先进的实验室空间，包括10，000平方英尺的海湾/大通洁净室、6，500平方英尺的特写套房和12，000平方英尺的实验室单元。充满活力的集中公共空间包括公共广场、会议室和多功能论坛空间。

A new multi-level crossroads, the Krishna P. Singh Center for Nanotechnology is a significant step toward signaling the University’s leadership in the emerging field of nanotechnology. The new 78,000 square foot facility will have state-of-the-art lab spaces including a 10,000 square foot Bay/Chase Cleanroom, a 6,500 square foot Characterization Suite, and 12,000 square foot of Laboratory Modules. Vibrant, centralized public spaces include the public Galleria, conference rooms, and multipurpose Forum space.

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纳米技术中心将汇集来自艺术和科学学院以及工程和应用科学学院的研究人员，并将促进师生之间、各学科之间以及大学与城市之间的互动。实验室设施将围绕着一个至关重要的新公共核心组织起来，这将为这一新兴领域的研究提供知识的交流和综合。晚上，纳米技术中心将成为一个明亮的研究环境，包括休息室和咖啡厅等项目元素，以支持研究所需的持续占用。

The Center for Nanotechnology will bring together researchers from both the School of Arts and Science and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and will facilitate interaction between faculty and students, researchers across disciplines, and between the University and the city. Lab facilities will be organized around a vital new public core that will provide for the exchange and synthesis of knowledge that characterizes the study of this emerging field. At night, the Center for Nanotechnology will become a glowing environment for research with such program elements as a lounge and cafe needed to support the continuous occupancy that research requires.

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这些实验室是围绕着一个中央庭院组织起来的，这样可以看到外部景观，使科学活动变得非常明显。在实验室和外部外壳之间的盖勒里耶空间作为一个可居住的镜头。内部空间和外部空间的分离通过使用玻璃图案和镜像效果变得模糊不清。这个发光的广场然后被包裹在一个金属镶板正面，弯曲的波纹反射和折射周围的建筑和城市的活动。一条上升的路线从院子里爬过大楼，到达了一个论坛空间，在下面的院子里有65英尺高的悬臂。悬臂梁的钢剪力墙结构在内部和外部均有表达，强调与校园的连接。

The labs are organized around a central courtyard, allowing exterior views and making the scientific activities highly visible. The Galleria space between the lab and exterior enclosure functions as an inhabitable lens. The separation of interior and exterior space becomes blurred through the use of frit patterns and mirrored effects. This glowing Galleria is then wrapped in a metal paneled facade with a bent ripple that reflects and refracts the surrounding buildings and activity of the city. An ascending route climbs from the courtyard through the building to a Forum space that cantilevers 65 feet over the courtyard below. The steel shear wall structure for the cantilever is expressed on the interior and exterior, emphasizing the connection to Campus.

Architects WEISS/MANFREDI

Location 3205 Walnut Street, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, United States

Category University

Design Partners Marion Weiss, FAIA and Michael A. Manfredi, FAIA

Project Manager Todd Hoehn

Project Architects Michael Harshman, AIA, Kimberly Nun, AIA, Ina Ko, AIA, and Michael Steiner, AIA, LEED-AP

Area 78000.0 ft2

Project Year 2013

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