架构师提供的文本描述。蒙托班新多媒体图书馆的建设正在该市东部率先开展一项城市重建项目。它必须标志着城市的入口，为这些被忽视的社区提供身份，同时仍然代表蒙托班市。同时，它也是一个改造项目：在知识数字化的时代，这种设计的挑战是信息的空间化和物化及其划分。这是介于家庭空间和工作空间之间的“第三位”。

Text description provided by the architects. The construction of the new multimedia library of Montauban is spearheading an urban renewal project in the eastern quarters of the city. It must mark the entrance to the city, providing an identity to these neglected neighborhoods while still representing the city of Montauban. In parallel it is a project of reinvention: in these times of the digitalization of knowledge, the challenges of such a design are of spatialization and of materialization of the information and its division. This is the "third place" between domestic space and work space.

 © Paul Raftery

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未来多媒体图书馆的影响领域是以历史为标志的道路。穿越遗址的道路是在19世纪发展起来的：以前的支离破碎的土地，因此在图书馆附近建造的部分街区，就产生了这种几何学；沿着南面的道路是19世纪建立的一条旁路；最后，北面的道路和建筑街区的标志是60年代至70年代末创建了该地区。如何连接这些不同的线路？

The field of influence of the future multimedia library is bordered and cut by roads whose geometries are marked by history. The road crossing the site was developed by the 19th century: the former fragmented land, and thus a part of the blocks built adjacent to the library, yields to this geometry; the road along the land to the south is a bypass created in the 19th century; finally, the roads and built blocks to the north are marked by the creation of the district from the 60s to the end of the 70s. How to join these various lines?

 © Paul Raftery

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对这个节目的解释把它分成了三个同等的部分：一个公民论坛，一个邀请发现和会议的巨大的阅读空间，以及阅读和工作的空间。通过叠加这三个规划实体，倾斜地放置最后一层，使其与两层较低的楼层共享对角线，并通过三角剖分将它们连接起来，我们产生了一种内部空间性，它响应于建筑概要和一卷涉及网站所有几何学的内容。事实上，一楼和一楼毗邻19世纪的道路。在南面，悬垂的长度略有缩短，以适应旁路的曲线。二楼垂直于路易十四路，并在占主导地位的历史几何学中定位建筑及其轮廓。最后，三角剖分使用了最近城市化的几何学，标志着土地的北部。

The interpretation of the program resulted in dividing it into three equivalent parts: a citizens' forum, a large reading space that invites discovery and meetings, and rooms for reading and working. By superimposing these three programmatic entities, placing the last level obliquely so that it shares its diagonal with the two lower floors, and linking them by triangulation, we generate an interior spatiality that responds to the architectural brief and a volume that addresses all the geometries of the site. Indeed, the ground floor and the first floor border the 19th century road. To the south, the overhang is slightly shortened to fit the curve of the bypass. The second floor is placed perpendicular to the Louis XIV road and locates the building and its outline within the dominant historical geometry. Finally, the triangulation uses the geometry of the recent urbanization, marking the northern part of the lands.

 © Paul Raftery

保罗·雷特利

从正在重组的社区，游客进入北面悬空下的多媒体图书馆，保护它不受旁路和秋风的滋扰。在一楼，市民论坛是为行人和欢迎访客。在与当前事件的直接视觉关系中，一楼包含“想象的世界”，一个探索和发现所有年龄组的地方。它享受的阶梯阅读空间，把它的空间和视觉连接到二楼。后者被移到“假想世界”上方的阁楼，这是自然光在头顶上的贡献所带来的好处。在这两个阅读空间的尽头，高高的窗户构成了背景的个别元素：城市的入口，一片保存了百年的树林，蒙托班的市中心。通过最初的几何操作，媒体图书馆内部与城市产生了共鸣。室内空间不受任何承载点的影响：保证了使用的灵活性。

From the neighborhoods being restructured, the visitor accesses the multimedia library under the northern overhang that protects it from nuisances of the bypass road and the autumn wind. On the ground floor, the citizen forum is for pedestrians and welcomes visitors. In direct visual relationship with current events, the first floor contains the “imaginary worlds", a place of exploration and discovery addressing all age groups. It enjoys stepped reading spaces that connect it spatially and visually to the second floor. The latter is moved to the mezzanine over the "imaginary worlds", which benefits in this way from a contribution of natural light overhead. At the ends of these two reading spaces, high windows frame the individual elements of the context: the entrance of the city, a grove of preserved centenary trees, the city center of Montauban. By means of the initial geometric manipulation, the interiors of the media library come into resonance with the city. The interior spaces are free from any bearing point: a total flexibility of use is assured.

 © Paul Raftery

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这座建筑上覆盖着一层兵马俑，这是对蒙托班砖砌建筑的赞颂。只有那些地板上的大玻璃板和读书桌才能穿透这块不寻常的兵马俑。用有色混凝土对室外空间的处理让人想起这座古镇铺满鹅卵石的人行道。

The building is draped with a coat of terra cotta, a tribute to the brick architecture characteristic of Montauban. Only the large panes of glass on those floors with reading tables pierce this unusual block of terra cotta. The treatment of the outdoor spaces with tinted concrete evokes the cobbled sidewalks of the old town.

 Second Floor Plan

二层平面图