架构师提供的文本描述。新加坡科技大学图书馆位于临时多佛校园的斜坡草坪上。展馆的格壳结构容纳了三棵成熟的树木，并在北部的艾尔拉贾高速公路形成了隔音屏障，利用场地的限制，激活了现有图书馆大楼后面的一个室外空间。白天，它为大学的学生和教职员工提供了一个可以放松、工作和交融的阴暗的露天场所。晚上，它成为非正式聚会、晚间讲座和SSUTD社区活动的场所。办公桌、移动书架和无线互联网把它变成了宿舍和教室之间的“第三个空间”，在这里，人们可以在轻松的氛围中进行知识和社会交流。

Text description provided by the architects. The Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) library pavilion is located on a sloping lawn on the temporary Dover Campus. Accommodating three mature trees and forming a noise barrier toward the Ayer Raja Expressway in the north, the gridshell structure of the pavilion harnesses the site constraints and activates an outdoor space behind the existing library building. During the day it offers a shaded open-air place to relax, work, and mingle for students and staff of the university. At night it becomes a place for informal gatherings, evening lectures and SUTD community events. Work-desks, mobile bookshelves and wireless Internet transform it into a “third space” between the dormitory and the classroom where intellectual and social exchange occurs in a casual atmosphere.

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建立在接触网结构的长期传统上，很少使用材料来达到相当大的跨度，天篷形成了一个没有柱，梁或垂直墙的轻质木材外壳。采用一种数值悬挂链模型来确定压缩过程中沿推力线的有效双曲率形状。使用计算设计和计算机控制的制造，使展馆的复杂的三维形式可以实现与现成的材料和一个简化的装配过程，以最低的成本。与钢网格不同的是，它没有复杂的三维结构连接，其所有元件都是由严格的平面胶合板和镀锌钢板在新加坡的数控机床上预制而成。因此，现场工作包括有序地组装3，000块独特的胶合板和600块独特的金属板材，这些瓷砖仅基于一幅图画-一幅三维拼图的数字地图，显示哪些碎片适合于其他几块。在切割过程中，每个胶合板和包层元素上都刻有ID号，在成品结构中可以看到它们作为装饰品。第一年，SSUTD的学生协助进行零件的预装配，承包商在现场建造了该结构。展馆设计在两年后拆除和回收。

Building upon a long tradition of catenary structures that use little material to achieve considerable spans, the canopy forms a lightweight timber shell with no columns, beams, or vertical walls. A numeric hanging-chain model was used to determine an efficient double-curvature shape that follows the lines of thrust in compression. Using computational design and computer controlled fabrication allowed the pavilion’s complex three-dimensional form to be achieved with readily available materials and a streamlined assembly process at minimal cost. Unlike steel gridshells, it has no complex three-dimensional structural joints – all of its elements were prefabricated from strictly flat plywood and galvanized steel sheets on CNC machines in Singapore. The site work thus comprised an orderly assembly of 3,000 unique plywood and 600 unique sheet-metal tiles based on only one drawing – the numeric map of a three-dimensional puzzle indicating which pieces fit next to which other pieces. ID numbers were engraved in the cutting process on each plywood and cladding element, which remain visible in the finished structure as ornament. First year SUTD students assisted with the pre-assembly of the pieces and the contractor erected the structure on site. The pavilion is designed to be dismantled and recycled after two years.

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