架构师提供的文本描述。能源创新中心是一个展示智能能源倡议和绿色建筑实践的工作展示会，所有这些都位于一个独特的环境中。这个27，000平方英尺的LEED白金中心为参观者提供了一个学习和探索最新能效、可再生能源、智能电网和替代燃料技术的场所。

Text description provided by the architects. The Energy Innovation Center is a working showcase that demonstrates smart energy initiatives and green building practices, all housed in one unique setting. This 27,000 square foot LEED Platinum center offers visitors a venue for learning and exploring the latest in energy efficiency, renewable energy, smart grid and alternative fuel technologies.

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该项目的选址是由公用事业公司从战略上选择的，目的是帮助刺激当地社区的经济发展，并展示更新一座几乎被遗忘的建筑的可能性，使其恢复活力，成为新兴能源技术和可持续发展的区域中心。该项目的范围扩大到该地区，利用一片太阳能树林展示发电、可渗透的路面和生物修复景观岛进行雨水管理，并建立一个示范园，将传统景观与其他耐旱种植方案进行比较。

The project’s location was strategically chosen by the utility to help stimulate economic development in the local community and to demonstrate the possibilities for renewing a near-forgotten building by bringing it back to life as a regional hub for emerging energy technology and sustainability. The project’s scope expands onto the site utilizing a grove of solar trees for demonstrating power generation, permeable paving surfaces and bioremediation landscape islands for storm water management, and a demonstration garden to compare traditional landscapes with alternative drought tolerant planting options.

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经过几十年的误入歧途的翻修，这座建筑已被拆除成裸露的建筑，暴露出一种典型的中叶设计，屋顶低沉，有玻璃幕墙，还有开放式的设计方案。通过将带有可操作玻璃墙的庭院刻在建筑物的一侧，内部程序使用了围绕这一新的露天花园空间的外部连接，提供日光和通风。白色喷雾泡沫绝缘屋顶是覆盖在光伏和热太阳能电池板阵列，共享空间与各种超高效率的暖通空调机组。

Buried under decades of misguided renovations, the existing building has been stripped down to its bare form exposing a classic mid-century design with low-pitched roof, glass façade and open plan. By notching a courtyard with operable glass walls into one side of the building, interior program uses surrounding this new open-air garden space now have an outdoor connection providing daylight and ventilation. The white spray-on foam insulation rooftop is covered in arrays of photovoltaic and thermal solar panels which share space with a variety of ultra-efficient HVAC units.

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(约翰·杜兰特)

培训和指导会议室；商业示范厨房，可供专业厨师试用和测试新的节能餐厅设备；功能良好的“智能家居”，代表节能住宅用具、LED和荧光照明装置、节水装置、暖通空调设备、家用电动汽车充电、太阳能发电和储能系统；庭院休憩区，其特色是展示垂直花园系统，利用自给节水技术；天空照明行政办公区域，使用可拆卸的家具，包括可拆解的隔间；有交互式照明技术显示的画廊空间；有借阅图书馆和交互式信息亭的大厅。

Seminar rooms for training and instruction; a commercial demonstration kitchen where new energy efficient restaurant equipment can be tried-out and tested by professional chefs; a functioning “smart home” representing the latest in energy efficient residential appliances, LED and fluorescent lighting fixtures, water saving devices, HVAC equipment, in-home electric vehicle charging, solar power generation and energy storage systems; a courtyard break-out area with living wall feature demonstrating vertical garden systems utilizing self-feeding water saving technology; a sky lit administrative office area using repurposed furniture including demountable partitions; gallery space with interactive displays for lighting technologies; a lobby with lending library and interactive information kiosks.

 Renovation Diagram

翻新图