架构师提供的文本描述。在Adjaye Associates为哥伦比亚特区建立的新社区图书馆中，威廉·O·洛克里奇/贝尔维尤图书馆(William O.Lockrid/Bellevue Library)的第二个图书馆的特点是，它庆祝了整个社区的景观，并把它插入了急剧倾斜的地形图中。所面临的挑战还包括在住宅范围内建造一座公民建筑。

Text description provided by the architects. The second of Adjaye Associates’ new neighborhood libraries for the District of Columbia, the William O. Lockridge/Bellevue Library is characterised by its celebration of views across the neighborhood, and its insertion into the dramatically sloping site topography. The challenge was also to create a civic building within a residential context.

 © Edmund Sumner

c.埃德蒙·萨姆纳

图书馆不是一个单一的整体形式，而是一组几何学卷，无论是提升还是物理上都与网站相连。使用接地主卷主持图书馆中央书库和初级阅读，高架卷在入口处创造了一个欢迎廊，可用于活动和非正式聚会。这些书籍通过使用小型、中型和大型的形式来调节建筑物的规模，这些形式来源于图书馆的方案，但也捕捉到了周围的城市结构和场地地形。围护结构不仅解决了结构和阴影的要求，而且还突出了建筑物与斜坡景观并排的垂直存在。

Rather than a single monolithic form, the library is a cluster of geometric volumes, both elevated and grounded physically to the site. Using the grounded main volume to host the library central stacks and primary reading, the elevated volumes create a welcoming portico at the entrance that can be used for events and informal gatherings. The volumes mediate the scale of the building by using small, medium and large forms, derived from the library’s programme but also capturing the surrounding urban fabric and the site topography. Wrapped in a concrete and glazed skin with timber fins, the envelope not only resolves structural and shading requirements, but also articulates the vertical presence of the building juxtaposed to the sloping landscape.

 © Edmund Sumner

c.埃德蒙·萨姆纳

在计划上，卷遵循网站的几何形状形成一系列相同的，移动的矩形。这种安排最大限度地利用了过滤后的自然光的东方曝光，这是主要的光源。图书馆服务领域是分层的，成人、青少年和儿童的服务包含在单独的卷内。一楼设有流通台、成人浏览、景观和音响、会议室和图书馆工作人员支持空间。二楼有额外的成人浏览和儿童服务。三楼还有成人、会议室和青少年服务。混凝土楼梯，带游客到更高的层次，与街道的斜坡相匹配。

On plan, the volumes follow the geometry of the site to form a series of identical, shifting rectangles. The arrangement maximizes the eastern exposure for filtered natural lighting, which is the primary light source. The library service areas are layered, with adults, teenage and children’s services contained within the separate volumes. The first floor contains the circulation desk, adult browsing, sights and sound, a meeting room and library staff support spaces. The second floor has additional adult browsing and children services. The third floor contains further adult, meeting rooms and teen services. The concrete staircase, taking visitors up to the higher levels, matches the incline of the street.

 © Edmund Sumner

c.埃德蒙·萨姆纳