架构师提供的文本描述。这所两层楼高的中学坐落在阿肯色州绿色森林的小农业社区奥扎克山脉中间，它植根于现有公立学校校园的中心地带。我们认识到现有的中央绿地作为一个公共区域的重要性，在午餐和放学前和放学后作为中学生和高中生聚会的场所。此外，这是一个过渡空间，所有学生和社区成员一直穿越进入社区体育场。该空间作为一个广场之间的旧CWA体育馆，艺术音乐，自助餐厅，和农业建筑的校园。

Text description provided by the architects. Located amidst the Ozark Mountains in the small agricultural community of Green Forest, Arkansas this two-story middle school roots itself in the heart of the existing public school campus. We recognized the importance of the existing central greenspace as a common area, used throughout the day as a gathering place for middle school and high school students during lunch and before and after school. Furthermore, it is a transitional space consistently traversed by all students and members of the community to access the community stadium. The space acts as a plaza between the old CWA gymnasium, art + music, cafeteria, and agricultural buildings on the campus.

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在早期的总体规划阶段，学校希望用一层楼的教室来填满整个绿地-这就消除了校园的中心室外空间-提出了一座现代化的2层建筑，能够将2/3的可用外部空间作为学生聚居地和社区广场加以保留。可持续的设计是通过使用经济和智能的材料结合起来，通过人、空间、形式和色彩的互动来丰富现有校园的内部和外部的互动来解决的。

In the early master planning stages, the school's desire to fill in the entire green space with a one-story classroom building—which would have eliminated the central outdoor space of the campus—was overcome by proposing a modern 2-story building capable of preserving 2/3 of the available exterior space as a student commons and community plaza. The sustainable design is resolved through the use of economical and intelligent materials combined to enrich the existing campus through the interaction of people, space, form, and color—both internally and externally.

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这座建筑在新定义的广场空间中有着令人心旷神怡的感觉，可以在一个16英尺的白色立缝屋顶下接待学生和游客。这一覆盖区域，结合混凝土砌块和瓦楞纸金属面板的西墙，是一个活动空间，为学校和更大的社区服务。这个被美化的广场使用本地植物来定义一个功能良好的雨水花园和一个校友花园，其中包含有来自公立学校系统早期毕业生签名的雕刻混凝土摊铺板的遗迹。一条大型的游行人行道通向建筑入口，并以悬臂式的图书馆盒子为标志，包着红色的金属面板；与学校的标志性颜色相对应的蝴蝶结。

The structure has a poignant presence in the newly defined plaza space, ready to receive students and visitors under a 16' cantilever of white standing seam roof. This covered zone, combined with the figure-ground of the concrete block and corrugated metal panel of the western wall is an event space that serves the school and the greater community. The landscaped plaza uses native plantings to define a functioning rain garden and an alumni garden that contains the relics of carved concrete pavers with signatures from the early graduates of the public school system. A large processional sidewalk leads to the building entry and is marked by the cantilevered library box, clad in red metal panel; a bow to the school’s signature color.

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室内宽敞的中庭有一个漂浮的楼梯，上面有一个巨大的天窗，在主要的流通中心创造了一个关键的光和运动的交汇点。电梯的垂直红色墙是一座灯塔，再次强调学校的标志性色彩是活动的催化剂。裸露的结构揭示了骨骼作为一种与生俱来的教育经验，并提供了进入，接待区和走廊连接个别教室的音量。

A spacious atrium on the interior hosts a floating stair with a large skylight above that creates a pivotal intersection of light and movement at the primary hub of circulation. The vertical red wall of the elevator is a beacon, again emphasizing the school’s signature color as the catalyst for activity. The exposed structure reveals the bones as an innate educational experience and provides a relief of volume in the entry, reception areas, and the corridors connecting the individual classrooms.

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楼上，图书馆和流通空间向下面的入口开放。作为一个透明的平台，图书馆漂浮在入口上方，窗户盒的凸起向西，俯瞰广场和高中。投影盒成为一个深窗座位，适合学生沉浸在他们周围的书籍中。经济规模的教室配有定制的磨坊和大窗户，供日光和新鲜空气之用，位于第一层和第二层宽阔的走廊两侧，定制的钢衬垫用一个房间号标记每个学习空间的门槛。第二层走廊的北端将分解成另一个投影窗口座位盒，以便从繁忙的走廊和二级楼梯上得到休息。

Upstairs, the library and circulation spaces open to the entry below. Conceived as a transparent platform, the library floats above the entry with the projection of the window box framing a view to the west overlooking the plaza and high school beyond. The projected box becomes a deep window seat suitable for students to be immersed in the books around them. Economically sized classrooms with custom millwork and large windows, for daylight and fresh air, flank the wide corridors of the first and second floors, and custom steel lintels mark the threshold of each learning space with a room number. The north end of the second floor corridor resolves into another projected window seat box to provide a respite from the busy hallway and secondary stair.

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特殊教育学习部分位于东北角，设有自己的花园、有盖的门廊入口和提供私人、安全和舒适的氛围，供日常教学资源课程的实际应用之用。这个元素也被认为是一个投影的盒子，为东面提供空间上的浮雕-东面紧邻足球场-并且在构成上起到平衡结构的作用。

The Special Education Learning component is located on the northeast corner and contains its own garden, covered porch entry, and services providing a private, safe, and comfortable atmosphere for the practical applications of teaching daily resource classes. This element is also conceived as a projected box, providing spatial relief to the eastern façade—which is adjacent to the football field—and acts as a compositionally balances the structure.

作为一座位于校园地理中心的建筑，所有的高地都精心地由混凝土块和金属面板组成，以动态地处理每一条通道。这些耐用、低维护的材料是经济型学校建设的共同之处，但却创造性地用来提供一种独特的设计美学。作为基础材料，采用标准尺寸、喷砂、堆垛粘结的混凝土砌块代替劈裂面砌块，这是学校建筑中最典型的材料。这一平滑的街区使建筑物友好的学生和其他用户占用周围的景观聚集空间。该建筑的立式煤层棚顶将所有的水输送到东侧，延续了现场的自然水文，同时还提供了一个包含新结构主体积的组成壳。

As a building located in the geographic center of the campus, all elevations are carefully composed with the play of concrete block and metal panel to dynamically address each approach. These durable, low-maintenance materials are common to economical school construction, but are creatively used to provide a unique design aesthetic. As a base material, the standard-sized, sand-blasted, stack-bond concrete block is used instead of split-face block, which is the most typical material for school construction. This smooth block keeps the building friendly to students and other users occupying the landscaped gathering spaces around the building. The standing seam shed roof of the building channels all water to the east side in continuation with the natural hydrology of the site while also providing a compositional shell embracing the main volume of the new structure.

大校园的背景也通过开发一个新的步行广场加以解决，该广场连接了飞利浦大道小学街对面的中学和高中；现有的街道在上课时间被禁止进入所有车辆通道。一种新的街道设计仔细控制车辆的移动速度，最大限度地增加停车和公共汽车(UN)装载的流量，并创建一条树木林立的林荫大道，以美化小学区。

The context of the greater campus was also addressed through the development of a new pedestrian plaza which connects the middle school and high school across the primary street of Philips Avenue; the existing street was shut down from all vehicular access during school hours. A new street design carefully controls vehicular movement speed, maximizes circulation for parking and bus (un)loading and creates a tree-lined boulevard to beautify the primary school zone.

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