架构师提供的文本描述。科文顿农贸市场是由维吉尼亚理工大学的第三年建筑工作室“设计/建筑实验室”设计和建造的，建筑设计学院的重点是研究、开发和实施创新的建筑方法和建筑设计。在设计/建造实验室时，学生与当地社区和专家合作，制定概念并提出解决现实世界问题的办法。本课程的目的是教学生必要的技能来面对设计和实现建筑项目，意识到社会和环境问题。通过消除建筑制作中的抽象，本课程激发了学生的主动性，并鼓励他们就实践的本质和建筑师的角色提出基本问题。通过为建筑学学生提供改变社区生活的机会，希望能向他们展示建筑能给他们带来的积极影响，并激励他们树立高度的职业道德。

Text description provided by the architects. The Covington Farmers Market was designed and built by design/buildLAB, a third year architecture studio at the Virginia Tech, School of Architecture + Design focused on the research, development and implementation of innovative construction methods and architectural designs. At design/buildLAB students collaborate with local communities and experts to develop concepts and propose solutions to real world problems. The goal of this course is to teach students the skills necessary to confront the design and realization of architecture projects, with a consciousness for social and environmental issues. By removing the abstraction from the making of architecture, the course engages students’ initiative and encourages them to ask fundamental questions about the nature of practice and the role of the architect. By framing the opportunity for architecture students to make a difference in the life of a community, the hope is to show them the positive impact Architecture can make and inspire them to high professional ethics.

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在秋季学期，学生们花了几个星期的时间研究弗吉尼亚州的现有农贸市场-他们参观了这些市场-以及世界各地-他们通过出版物、图画和照片来研究这些市场。利用这些信息、客户给他们的要求清单以及他们自己对科文顿农贸市场供应商的访谈，学生们能够为该项目制定指导方针和具体要求。

During the fall semester, the students spent a number of weeks studying existing Farmers Markets around Virginia – which they visited – and around the world – which they studied through publications, drawings and photographs. Using that information, a list of requirements given to them by the client and their own interviews of the Covington Farmers Market vendors, the students were able to establish guidelines and specific requirements for the project.

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所有17名学生首先为该项目提出了个人设计主张。从这些，确定了一个总体计划，然后为该建筑物的设计。这样，所有的学生都对讨论提出了意见。从教学的角度来看，不选择一个“方案”是非常重要的。相反，他们合作开发了该项目的最终设计。

All 17 students first made individual design propositions for the project. From those, a master plan was determined then a design for the building. In this way, all of the students contributed ideas to the discussion. It was very important from a pedagogical perspective that not one “scheme” was chosen. Rather, they collaborated to develop the final design for the project.

该项目被设想为三个部分：地面平面，被占领的空间，和展馆屋顶。所有组件都是基于一个10‘宽的模块，以方便预制和运输到现场。在城镇的规模上，这座建筑看上去是一种无缝的姿态。在居住者的规模上，细节表示模块化结构。一个蝗虫甲板作为市场的地板。它折叠起来，允许嵌套一个办公室，储藏室和卫生间。它延伸到市场以外，成为一个倾斜的地球公园，以提供一个舞台和座位。一个雕塑屋顶和屋顶的再生红松和镀锌钢板漂浮在头顶上。

The project is conceived as 3 parts: Ground Plane, Occupied Space, and Pavilion Roof. All component parts are based on a 10’ wide module to facilitate prefabrication and transportation to the site. At the scale of the town, the building reads as a seamless gesture. At the scale of the occupant, the details express the modular construction. A locust deck serves as the market floor. It folds up to allow the nesting of an office, storage room and toilet room. It extends beyond the market and into a sloped earth park to provide a stage and seating. A sculptural roof and ceiling of reclaimed heart-pine and galvanized sheet steel floats over-head.

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这个市场展馆是永恒的农耕情感的现代表现。

This market pavilion is the modern expression of timeless agrarian sensibilities.

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由于在这个市场销售的所有货物都必须在方圆100英里范围内生产，这一距离成为建筑材料采购的一个目标。这一方法的关键是在建筑中使用可回收的建筑材料，特别是重复使用从邻近城镇的一个旧谷仓中回收的木材。另外，新木材，包括蝗虫覆盖和黄松包层项目是从当地锯木。

Because all goods sold at this market are required to be produced within a 100 mile radius, this distance became a goal for the procurement of construction materials. Essential to this approach was the use of recycled building material in the construction, in particular the re-use of wood salvaged from an old barn in a neighboring town. Additional, new lumber, including locust decking and yellow pine cladding for the project were sourced from locally sawn timbers.

通过最大限度地提高结构效率和尽量减少浪费，数字制造在该项目的可持续性方面发挥了重要作用。在限制水和能源使用方面，该项目包括雨水收集系统、LED照明和自然通风。一个1200加仑的蓄水池从屋顶收集水，用于给公园浇水和冲厕所。LED照明保证灯泡寿命长，能耗极低。此外，展馆的屋顶设计了一个倒顶棚，以方便烟囱效应通风，并消除了机械冷却的需要。

Digital fabrication played a substantial role in the sustainability of the project by maximizing structural efficiency and minimizing waste. In terms of limiting water and energy use, the project incorporates a rain water collection system, LED lighting and natural ventilation. A 1200 gallon cistern collects water from the roof and is used for watering the park and flushing toilets. LED lighting ensures long bulb life and extremely low energy consumption. Further, the pavilion roof was designed with an inverted ceiling to facilitate stack effect ventilation and eliminate the need for mechanical cooling.

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最后，从现场的前停车场沥青表面被碾磨和储存通过建设，以重新用途，作为一个新的渗透，压实，停车场。

Finally, the asphalt surface from the site’s previous parking lot was milled and stored through construction to be repurposed as a new permeable, compacted, parking area.

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学生们在VA技术环境系统实验室预制了市场结构，包括地板、条件建筑和展馆屋顶。雇用了一名当地承包商来完成地基和公用设施的连接。这使得施工的两个阶段-工地工程和框架化-同时进行。总共，学生们在不到四个月的时间内就预制并组装了这个结构。在一个受控制的环境中工作的效率，以及容易获得工具和设备，对于实现一个学年的时间表至关重要。

The students prefabricated the Market structure, including floor, conditioned buildings, and pavilion roof at VA Tech’s Environmental Systems Laboratory. A local contractor was hired to complete the foundations and utility connections. This allowed for two phases of construction, site work and framing, to happen simultaneously. In total, the students prefabricated and assembled the structure in less than four months. The efficiency of working in a controlled environment, with easy access to tools and equipment was essential in achieving the schedule of one academic year.

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项目识别

Project Recognition

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科文顿农贸市场最近被弗吉尼亚协会AIA授予2011年设计卓越奖。

The Covington Farmers Market was recently awarded a 2011 Design Excellence Award from the Virginia Society AIA.

来自埃斯托公司的杰夫·戈德伯格的照片和该项目的模型将于2011年11月至1月在弗吉尼亚建筑中心展出。

Photographs from Jeff Goldberg of Esto and models of the project will be on display at the Virginia Center for Architecture from November through January 2011.

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