架构师提供的文本描述。视觉艺术中心标志着达特茅斯校园的东部入口，并正式将一批重要建筑正式纳入学院重新设想的艺术区。这座105，000平方英尺的建筑沿着黎巴嫩街延伸，该机构与汉诺威镇接洽。在这个学院和社区的交汇处，这个项目提供了一个正式的草坪和硬风景的艺术广场，它邀请公众参与在达特茅斯重新关注艺术。艺术广场提供了从黎巴嫩街到胡德博物馆的正式入口，是新定义的艺术区的中心。

Text description provided by the architects. The Visual Arts Center marks the eastern entrance to Dartmouth’s campus and formalizes a mixture of significant buildings into a re-envisioned Arts District for the College. The 105,000 square foot building stretches along Lebanon Street where the institution engages the town of Hanover. At this intersection of the College and community, the project provides a formal lawn and hard-scaped Arts Plaza, which invites the public to participate in a renewed focus on the arts at Dartmouth. The Arts Plaza provides a formal entrance from Lebanon Street to the Hood Museum and serves as the centerpiece of the newly defined Arts District.

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这座建筑将达特茅斯工作室的艺术、电影和媒体部门合并为学院历史上的首次单一设施，并为新创建的数字人文项目提供了空间。该设施包括雕塑、版画、摄影、建筑、绘画和绘图工作室，以及最先进的电影制作、动画和编辑空间。视觉艺术中心的核心是艺术论坛，这是一个中央的中庭空间，它将光和空气带入城市街区的核心。三层空间的设计是为了促进跨学科的互动和思想的共享。教学空间和工作室被组织成独立的节目社区，向所有三个层次的艺术论坛开放。

The building consolidates Dartmouth’s Studio Art and Film and Media departments into a single facility for the first time in the College’s history, and provides spaces for a newly created Digital Humanities program. The facility houses sculpture, printmaking, photography, architecture, painting and drawing studios as well as state of the art film production, animation and editing spaces. At the heart of the Visual Arts Center is the Arts Forum, a central atrium space, which brings light and air into the core of the urban block. The three-story space is designed to promote cross-disciplinary interaction and the collegial sharing of ideas. Teaching spaces and studios are organized into discrete program neighborhoods, which open to the Arts Forum on all three levels.

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(Anton Grassl/Esto)

新的视觉艺术中心旨在达到LEED黄金评级。该项目采用高性能包膜，包括泡沫绝缘和三层玻璃窗.暖通空调系统通过高效的热回收轮直接排风。该建筑采用了多种节能技术，包括地板内和冷却光束辐射加热和冷却、照明和通风的占用传感器、雨水收集和再利用以及日光采集和日光感应照明系统。

The new Visual Arts Center is designed to achieve a LEED Gold rating. The project utilizes a high performance envelope including foam insulation and triple-glazed windows. HVAC systems direct exhaust air through high efficiency heat recovery wheels. The building incorporates a wide variety of energy saving technologies, including in-floor and chilled beam radiant heating and cooling, occupancy sensors for lighting and ventilation, rainwater collection and reuse and daylight harvesting and daylight sensing lighting systems.

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