架构师提供的文本描述。许多研究表明，能够进入图书馆并经常使用图书馆的小学生和中学生的考试成绩高于那些不使用图书馆的学生。考虑到这一点，圣何塞东北部的一所小学和中学奥查德学校(Orchard School)的官员们试图改善他们过时、拥挤不堪的校园图书馆，其目标是为他们不断增长的藏书提供住房，改善学生获得技术的机会，并为学校创造一个中心。该项目完成后，建立了一个引人注目的图书馆，使校园充满活力，创造了一个既吸引学生又吸引教师的目的地。

Text description provided by the architects. Numerous studies have shown that elementary and middle school students who have access to and regularly use libraries achieve higher test scores than those students who don’t. With this in mind, officials at Orchard School—an elementary and middle school campus in northeastern San Jose—sought to improve their outdated and overcrowded campus library, with the goals of housing their growing book collection, improving student access to technology, and creating a central focus for the school. The completed project resulted in an eye-catching library that enlivens the campus, creating a destination that attracts both students and teachers.

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追溯到19世纪50年代，果园学校是北加利福尼亚最古老的经营学校之一。它的图书馆位于校园的中心，连接着小学和中学。由于这个理想的中心位置，翻修和扩建3000-SF空间比其他地方的新建筑更有意义。利用集中的位置优势，设计团队计划反对小学和中学的条目到图书馆，从而定义了一个空间组织，承认每个群体的不同身份。

Dating back to the 1850s, Orchard School is one of the oldest operating schools in Northern California. Its library, located at the heart of the campus, connects the elementary and middle school areas. Because of that ideal central location, a renovation and expansion of the 3,000-SF space made more sense than new construction elsewhere. Using the centralized location to advantage, the design team planned for opposing elementary and middle school entries to the library, thus defining a spatial organization that acknowledges the distinct identity of each group.

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它的位置夹在灰泥覆盖，平顶90年代的建筑之间，设计师和学校官员知道他们需要把图书馆和周围环境区分开来。经过扩建和翻新的图书馆通过使用带有锌板口音和丰富玻璃的金属复合板表面来应对这一挑战，这让图书馆在硅谷中心的地位有了惊人的审美反映。倾斜的棱角分明的窗户突出了建筑物的入口，并将内部景观斜向景观走廊。他们缩减了建筑物的规模，以响应其较小的使用者，有效地阻挡了邻近建筑物的空白后墙和机械设备的无吸引力的景观，同时也保持了与外部景观广场的持续联系感。

With its location tucked between stucco-clad, flat roofed 1990s-era buildings, designers and school officials knew they needed to distinguish the library from its surroundings. The expanded and renovated library responds to this challenge through the use of a metallic composite-panel façade with zinc plate accents and abundant glass, giving the library a striking aesthetic reflective of its position in the heart of Silicon Valley. The angular, sloping windows emphasize the building entries and focus interior vistas obliquely toward view corridors. They taper the building’s scale in response to its smaller users, and effectively block the unattractive view of an adjacent building’s blank rear wall and mechanical equipment, yet maintain a continuous sense of connection with the landscaped plaza outside.

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在里面，戏剧性的全高度玻璃为扩大的6000-SF空间带来了深层次的自然光，这与它的前身的遮挡视野有了很大的不同。天然木屏风，当地由FSC认证的木材，有助于确定空间和提供边界，而不影响监督。随着流通台安装在中心的空间，图书馆员现在可以调查学生，同时欢迎任何人来来往往。现有的小学和中学班的黑暗教学空间被重新安置到充满天然北光的角落；翻新后的现有空间，没有窗户，现在为18，000卷的藏品搭建了堆叠，以及一个可容纳36名学生的新技术实验室。

Inside, the dramatic full-height glass brings natural light deep into the expanded 6,000-SF space, a drastic departure from the obstructed views of its predecessor. A natural wood screen, locally crafted from FSC-certified wood, helps to define space and provide boundaries without compromising supervision. With the circulation desk installed in the center of the space, librarians are now able to survey students while greeting anyone coming and going. Dark existing instructional spaces for elementary and middle school classes were relocated to corners filled with natural north light; the renovated existing space, with no access to windows, now houses stacks for the 18,000-volume collection, along with a new technology lab for up to 36 students.

图书馆在为这个杂乱无章的校园创造一个焦点方面取得了巨大成功，提供了新的教学机会，并吸引了学生、工作人员和社区用户；此外，它的自然光线和空间质量使它成为校园内最受欢迎的课外教员会议和培训场所。

The library has been hugely successful in creating a focal point for this rambling campus, providing new instructional opportunities, and attracting student, staff, and community users; as a bonus, its natural light and spatial quality have made it the most popular spot on campus for after-school faculty meetings and training sessions.

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果园图书馆目前已在美国绿色建筑委员会注册，以获得LEED黄金认证。它通过使用高性能的外部建筑围护、室内日照、自然通风、光伏电池板、升级的机械系统、绿色认证的室内陈设和饰面、节水的水暖装置以及谨慎的放置和定位来减少太阳能热的增加，从而达到可持续设计的这一水平。

The Orchard library is currently registered with the United States Green Building Council for LEED Gold certification. It achieves this level of sustainable design through the use of a high-performance exterior building envelope, interior day lighting, natural ventilation, photovoltaic panels, upgraded mechanical systems, green-certified interior furnishings and finishes, water-saving plumbing fixtures, and careful siting and orientation to reduce solar heat gain.

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