架构师提供的文本描述。柯克伍德公共图书馆坐落在一条商业购物大道上，被设计成一个路旁广告牌，展示着阅读、学习和探索的公共公民功能。建筑公司ikon.5的建筑师，有机会创建一个新的分支图书馆，为一个不断增长的多样化社区，在一个可到达的地区，将作为标志性的社区中心附近。

Text description provided by the architects. Set along a commercial shopping strip highway, Kirkwood Public Library is designed as a roadside billboard announcing the public civic function of reading, learning, and exploration. Architecture firm ikon.5 architects, had the opportunity to create a new branch library for a growing diverse community in an accessible area that would serve as the iconic community center of the neighborhood.

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商场和快餐店两侧的网站。大型图形标志乱扔在该图书馆所在的高速公路和一个小规模的居民区设置在一个街区的高速公路站点。在这种情况下，柯克伍德公共图书馆出现在公路上供社区使用的藏书。

Shopping malls and fast food restaurants flank both sides of the site. Large graphic signs litter the highway where this library is sited and a small scale residential neighborhood is set one block in from the highway site. Within this context, Kirkwood Public Library appears as a collection of books set on the highway for the community to use.

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詹姆斯·达迪奥

面对高速公路，堆叠的水平水泥板墙板的建筑立面被塑造成一系列的盒子，代表书的边缘堆放在他们的一边。抽象几何形态的结果，有效地说明了建筑及其在商业环境下对社区的作用。

Facing the highway, the building facade of stacked horizontal cement board siding is fashioned as a series of boxes that represent the edge of books piled up on their side. The result of abstract geometric forms, effectively illustrates the building and its function to the community along the stark commercial environment.

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毗邻居民区，一个双高的天篷悬臂从正面像一页的书，提供住所的大门。在网站的西端，一个主要的玻璃两层阅览室被一个雪松太阳能屏幕覆盖。该屏幕允许在控制太阳增益和日采光的同时显示出所需的视图。在内部，该项目沿高速公路的长度安排，以增加能见度和遮蔽入口侧的交通。

Adjacent to the residential neighborhood, a double height canopy cantilevers from the facade like a page of a book, providing shelter to the front door. At the western end of the site, a main glazed two story reading room is covered in a cedar solar screen. The screen permits desirable views out while controlling solar gain and day light harvesting. Internally, the program is arranged along the length of the highway to increase visibility and to shelter the entry side from traffic.

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詹姆斯·达迪奥

柯克伍德公共图书馆整合了环保、高性能的绿色元素。图书馆最大的能源利用是采暖、通风、空调和照明。采取了关键步骤，以减少能源消耗，水消耗，和挥发性有机成分的材料。

The Kirkwood Public Library integrates environmentally friendly, high performance green elements. The greatest use of energy in a library is heating ventilation, air conditioning, and lighting. Crucial steps were taken to reduce energy consumption, water consumption, and volatile organic compositions in materials.

Architects ikon.5 architects

Location New Castle County RPA Comm, New Castle, DE 19720, USA

Category Library

Architect ikon.5 architects

Area 22500.0 ft2

Project Year 2009

Photographs James D'Addio

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