架构师提供的文本描述。在奥克兰的伊拉金金斯公园建立一个新的体育中心，让低收入的布鲁克菲尔德社区可以享受健身和娱乐活动，这已经是这个城市20多年来的梦想。2002年，旧金山申办奥运会失败，计划在现场建设一个奥运培训中心。之后，该市与Els建筑和城市设计公司(Els Architecture And City Design)合作，让该项目变得可行，完善项目，寻求新的资金来源，并将该项目分为两个阶段，首先建设核心部分。

Text description provided by the architects. To build a new sports center in Oakland’s Ira Jinkins Park and make fitness and recreation accessible to the low-income Brookfield neighborhood has been the city’s dream for more than 20 years. After San Francisco’s 2012 Olympics bid failed in 2002 and dashed plans to build an Olympic training center on the site, the city collaborated with ELS Architecture and Urban Design to make the project feasible anyway, refining the program, seeking new funding sources, and breaking the project into two phases to build the core components first.

第一阶段于2011年6月开始，这是一个拥有25，000平方英尺的社区体育、娱乐和水上运动中心.它包括一个有室内休闲游泳池的游泳馆、一个舞蹈和有氧运动工作室、一个健身中心、更衣室和一个大厅。一个学习/媒体中心有助于提高学生的学术成就，同时也为高级聚会和社区会议提供空间。未来阶段将增加足球场和棒球场，以及一个暂停跑道的两场体育馆和一个25码x25米的竞赛池，以取代该场地现有的布鲁克菲尔德/伊拉·金斯娱乐中心(Brookfield/Ira Jinkins Recreation Center)。

The first phase opened in June 2011, a state-of-the-art 25,000-square-foot community sports, recreation, and aquatics center. It includes a natatorium with an indoor leisure pool, a dance and aerobics studio, a fitness center, locker rooms, and a lobby. A learning/media center helps improve student academic success while also providing space for senior gatherings and community meetings. Future phases will add soccer and baseball fields as well as a two-court gymnasium with a suspended running track and a 25 yd x 25 m competition pool to replace the site’s existing Brookfield/Ira Jinkins Recreation Center.

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相对于现有的社区中心，该中心相对没有窗户，被树木环绕，新的中心是一座玻璃建筑，旨在提供广泛的自然光和透明度，并邀请人们进来。在外观上，使用平面和波纹金属面板与混凝土砌体和玻璃相结合，使建筑在公园内呈现出一种城市气息，同时与该街区的轻工业环境相融合。该项目旨在按照奥克兰市的要求，实现LEED银牌认证。绿色设计特色包括用于加热游憩池水的热太阳能电池板、用于雨水径流的生物瓦片、高效率的机械系统和可回收的建筑材料。

In contrast to the existing community center, which is relatively windowless and surrounded by trees, the new center is a glass building designed to provide extensive natural light and transparency and to invite people in. On the exterior, the use of flat and corrugated metal panels combined with concrete masonry and glass gives the building a civic presence in the park while blending with the light industrial context of the block. The project is designed to achieve LEED Silver certification, as mandated by the City of Oakland. Green design features include thermal solar panels used to heat the recreation pool water, bioswales for stormwater runoff, high-efficiency mechanical systems, and recycled building materials.

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该设计展示了具有高度透明性的集合卷的编程元素。三种颜色的低e绿色玻璃，嬉戏放置在幕墙内的北，东，南侧游泳馆，最大限度的采光和景观，并给予一个闪闪发光，水的质量。晚上，游泳馆闪闪发光，成为社区自豪感的灯塔。透明度允许“关注公园”，以提高安全性，吸引游客，并使进入大厅的用户可以看到建筑物内的各种活动。作为大楼的焦点，大厅两边都有入口，这样用户就可以轻松地从该设施搬到Edes大道或运动场。

The design showcases the programmatic elements with highly transparent massing volumes. Three hues of low-e green glass, playfully placed within curtain-wall on the north, east, and south sides of the natatorium, maximize daylighting and views and give a shimmering, watery quality to the mass. During the night, the natatorium glows and serves as a beacon of community pride. The transparency allows for “eyes on the park” to improve security, draw visitors, and enable users entering the lobby to see the variety of activities within the building. As the building’s focal point, the lobby has entries on both sides so users can move easily from the facility to Edes Avenue or the sport fields.

该中心的资金来自奥克兰的措施DD债券，奥克兰再开发机构的资金，来自加利福尼亚州的赠款，以及东湾区域公园的措施WW。

Funding for the center comes from Oakland’s Measure DD bonds, Oakland Redevelopment Agency funds, a grant from the State of California, and East Bay Regional Parks Measure WW.

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