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架构师提供的文本描述。新扩建的国王学院斯堪的伦体育馆是建造在一个紧凑的，倾斜的城市地点在市中心威尔克斯-巴雷，宾夕法尼亚州。项目空间，包括体育、学生娱乐和健康科学，是经济堆叠和战略规划，以利用该网站的自然地形和规划要求。

Text description provided by the architects. The new expansion to the King’s College Scandlon Gymnasium is constructed on a compact, sloping urban site in downtown Wilkes-Barre, PA. Program spaces, including athletics, student recreation, and health sciences, are economically stacked and strategically zoned to take advantage of the site’s natural topography and program requirements.

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新增加的建筑从现有的建筑，创造了一个软，适当规模的城市边缘。一处长满草的前院，以蛇形砖墙为界，标志着入口顺序，并符合人类的规模。室外教学环境作为节目空间的延伸，成为进入队伍的活跃部分。在入口处，游客会收到一盏玻璃灯笼，从两个侧翼的砖石上突出出来。这盏灯笼为行人提供了避风港，同时从内部的中央楼梯上捕捉到校园景观。

The new addition sets back from the existing building to create a soft, appropriately-scaled urban edge. A grassy forecourt bounded by a serpentine brick wall marks the entry sequence and addresses the human scale. An outdoor teaching environment acts as an extension of the program spaces within, and becomes a lively part of the entry procession. At the entry, visitors are presented with a glass lantern, which projects out from two flanking brick monoliths. This lantern creates shelter for pedestrians while capturing campus views from atop the interior’s grand central stair.

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在里面，一个低矮的玻璃体积作为一个中等规模的玻璃连接器，描绘了更大体积的现有健身房，和新的补充。此入口连接器还充当建筑物用户的控制点。一个宏伟的中央楼梯从这一地区上升到体育馆层，在那里自然光线透过开放的规划进入建筑物的娱乐空间。这种间接的阳光温暖了未完成的混凝土砌块墙，并为里面的活动提供了明亮的光线。木材储存组件，连接为家具，进一步软化和界定空间。

Inside, a low-lying glass volume acts as a modestly-scaled glass connector, delineating the larger volumes of the existing gym, and the new addition. This entry connector also acts as the control point for the building’s users. A grand central stair ascends from this area into the gymnasium level, where natural light filters through the open plan into the building’s recreation spaces. This indirect sunlight warms the unfinished concrete block walls and provides a luminous glow for the activities within. Wood storage components, articulated as furnishings, further soften and define the space. 

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这栋建筑的外部由金属墙板和砖石组合而成。在多个尺度上，金属墙板的图案在距离上和近距离上都是清晰可辨的，它既涵盖了学院的校园，也涵盖了它的直接背景。在整个建筑中，砌体接缝都被耙向后，以进一步解决人类的规模问题。

The building’s exterior is carefully composed in a pattern of metal siding and masonry monoliths. Rippling across multiple scales, the metal siding’s pattern is legible both at distance and up close, addressing both the College’s campus and its immediate context. Throughout the building, the masonry joints are raked back to further address the human scale.

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在每一次的转折中，这栋建筑的材料和方法都体现了它作为娱乐空间的功能。该项目的目的不是为了掩盖金属墙板和砖石砌块的功利性，而是赋予这些简单的材料以优雅的形式和规模。这些策略旨在将一座简单的建筑改造成在国王学院(King‘s College)校园里的一座坚固而有影响力的建筑。

At every turn, the building’s materials and methods address its function as a space for recreation. Rather than gloss over the utilitarian nature of metal siding and masonry block, the project aims to imbue these simple materials with elegance of form and scale. These strategies work to transform a simple building addition into a tough, impactful presence on the King’s College campus.

 Ground Floor Plan

Architects Spillman Farmer Architects

Location King's College, 133 North River Street, Wilkes-Barre, PA 18702, United States

Category Schools

Managing Principal Daniel L. Harrigan

Design Principal Joseph N. Biondo

Project Architect Michael J. Metzger

Project Team Salvatore B. Verrastro, AIA CCS CCCA FCSI; Wayne F. Stitt, AIA; Joseph Balsamo; Clint Newton, III; Patrick B. Ytsma, RA; Randy Galiotto, Jr.; Kirk Koehler; Mark Piell; Elliot Nolter; Deirdre Kwiatek, LEED AP; Henry DelVecchio, IIDA; Kate Carter

Area 31800.0 sqm

Project Year 2013

Photographs Paul Warchol