架构师提供的文本描述。Drexel校园横跨费城大学城区市场街的两边。佐佐木在60年代的体育综合体它增加了大学在市场街的视觉存在，将现有的和新的建筑整合成一个统一的综合体，并将所有的娱乐设施组合成一个新的建筑侧翼。考虑到DAC被Drexel为数不多的户外景观空间所包围，该设计还最大限度地保护了网站的开放空间。

Text description provided by the architects. The Drexel campus straddles both sides of Market Street in Philadelphia’s University City section. Sasaki's addition to the Daskalasis Athletic Center (DAC), a 1960s-era athletic complex, accomplishes several institutional and programmatic goals. It increases the university’s visual presence along Market Street, integrates existing and new buildings into a unified complex, and groups all of the recreation facilities into a new building wing. Respecting that the DAC is surrounded by one of Drexel’s few outdoor landscape spaces, the design also maximizes preservation of the site’s open space.

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新大楼环绕着DAC大楼的两侧，在市场街提供了新的城市存在。主立面被视为一个大的玻璃屏风，弯曲的褶皱被延伸的建筑物的地板遮住。折叠的围护结构提供沿运动区域的壁龛，活跃的使用者和设备为街景增添了色彩和运动感。釉面皮肤也是广泛的能量研究的结果。该设计预计将减少南面50%的冷却负荷和东部30%的冷却负荷。大楼加设了一条主要的人行横道，形成了连接校园两个关键区域的走道。这条新建的通道使现有的和新的项目成为学生、访客、教员和工作人员在这个地点穿越校园的焦点。

The new building wraps around two sides of the DAC building, providing a new urban presence along Market Street. The main façade is treated as a large glazed screen with meandering folds shaded by the extension of the building’s floors. The folded enclosure provides alcoves along the exercise areas, where active users and equipment add a sense of color and movement to the streetscape. The glazed skin is also the result of extensive energy studies. The design is expected to reduce cooling loads by 50% on the south façade and 30% on the east. The building addition incorporates a major pedestrian artery, creating a walkway through the building linking two key areas of the campus. This newly created passageway renders existing and new programs as a focal point for students, visitors, faculty and staff crossing the campus at this location.

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该建筑最大的组成部分，室内体育馆和慢跑跑道，被放置在工地的上部，直接向保留的绿色开放。体育馆空间由开放的阳台环绕，所有活动空间都可以通过视觉进行交流。健身房周围有充足的开窗，从内外提供日光灯和能见度，将健身房的内部空间与邻近的软地板广场联系起来，用于户外团体锻炼。广场隐藏了一个雨水收集系统，将50%的现有DAC和70%的新建筑的水收集到一个地下蓄水池中。收集到的雨水用于冲厕所，以减少饮用水需求。

The building’s largest component, an indoor gymnasium and jogging track, is placed on the upper portion of the site, opening up directly to the preserved green. The gym space, surrounded by open balconies, allows all activities spaces to be communicated visually.  Ample fenestration around the gym provides day-lighting and visibility from inside and out, relating the interior space of the gym with the adjacent soft flooring plaza, used for outdoor group exercise. The plaza conceals a rainwater harvesting system that collects water from 50% of the existing DAC and 70% of the new structure into an underground cistern.  Collected rain water is used for toilet flushing to reduce potable water demand.

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在街道层面，建筑物与经过的城市场景相互作用。铺路图案与建筑物的角形褶皱相呼应，一家咖啡馆被放置在保留下来并融入设计中的树木中间，一家餐馆吸引了更大的社区和学生。一个以前不起眼的角落是通过结合一个美化广场和中心的攀爬墙玻璃框架-一个建筑住宅动态活动的进一步的外在表现出来的生活。

At street level, the building interacts with the passing urban scene. Paving patterns echo the angular folds of the building, a café is placed among trees preserved and integrated into the design, and a restaurant engages the larger community as well as students. A previously nondescript corner is brought to life through the combination of a landscaped plaza and the center’s climbing wall framed in glass—a further outward expression of a building housing dynamic activities.