架构师提供的文本描述。文化之城是西班牙西北部加利西亚省的一个新的文化中心。它的设计是从三套信息的叠加演变而来的。首先，圣地亚哥中世纪中心的街道平面图覆盖在山坡上的地形图上，可以俯瞰这座城市。第二，现代笛卡儿网格是建立在这些中世纪路线之上的。第三，通过计算机建模软件，允许山坡的地形扭曲两个平面的几何形状，从而生成一个新老的拓扑曲面，在一个前所未有的同时矩阵中重新定位。

Text description provided by the architects. The City of Culture is a new cultural center for the Province of Galicia in northwestern Spain. Its design evolves from the superposition of three sets of information. First, the street plan of the medieval center of Santiago is overlaid on a topographic map of the hillside site, which overlooks the city. Second, a modern Cartesian grid is laid over these medieval routes. Third, through computer modeling software, the topography of the hillside is allowed to distort the two flat geometries, thus generating a topological surface that repositions old and new in a simultaneous matrix never before seen.

圣地亚哥的原始中心符合一种图形/地面都市主义，其中建筑物是形象化的，或者是坚实的，街道是残存的，或者是空旷的空间。通过这一绘图操作，该项目呈现出一个弯曲的表面，既不是图形也不是地面，而是一个图形地面和一个图形，取代了旧城的数字地面都市化。圣地亚哥中世纪的过去并不是一种表象怀旧的形式，而是一种新的但不知怎的熟悉的存在一种新的形式中。

The original center of Santiago conforms to a figure/ground urbanism in which buildings are figural, or solid, and the streets are residual, or void spaces. Through this mapping operation, the project emerges as a curving surface that is neither figure nor ground but both a figured ground and a figured figure that supersede the figure-ground urbanism of the old city. Santiago’s medieval past appears not as a form of representational nostalgia but as a new yet somehow familiar presence found in a new form.

该项目的六座建筑被设想为三对：加利西亚博物馆和国际艺术中心；音乐和表演艺术中心和中央服务大楼；加利西亚图书馆和加利西亚档案馆。任何特定建筑的游客体验都会受到其与其直接合作伙伴关系的影响。卡米诺或步行街之间的建筑物也开放到一个公共广场，这是由六座建筑物的边缘，并具有景观和水的元素。最大的建筑是表演艺术剧院，它将有42.5米高。所有建筑物的高度都呈柔和的曲线上升，这些曲线似乎用它们的集体屋顶重建了山顶的形状，这些屋顶都是用石头覆盖的，上面有为场地设计提供信息的网格。

The six buildings of the project are conceived as three pairs: the Museum of Galicia and the International Art Center; the Center for Music and Performing Arts and the Central Services building; and the Library of Galicia and the Galician Archives. Visitors’ experiences of any given building will be affected by its relationship to its immediate partner. The caminos, or pedestrian streets, between the buildings also open onto a public plaza, which is bordered by the six buildings and features landscape and water elements. The largest building is the Performing Arts Theater, which will stand 42.5 meters high. The heights of all of the buildings rise in gentle curves that seem to reconstruct the shape of the hilltop with their collective rooflines, which are all clad in stone and marked with the grids that inform the design of the site.

 © Duccio Malagamba

c Duccio Malagamba

2011年1月11日，加利西亚图书馆和加利西亚档案馆在阿斯图里亚斯王子和公主主持的仪式上开门。17，372平方米的图书馆将容纳100万本书在开放的书库，珍稀的图书档案，和几个层次的储藏室。这个14，149平方米的档案馆包括研究和展览的空间.图书馆和档案馆都穿着石英岩，并有独特的幕墙。博物馆和行政大楼预计将于2011年底开放。

The Library of Galicia and Galician Archives opened their doors on January 11, 2011, during a ceremony presided over by the Prince and Princess of Asturias. The 17,372-square-meter Library will accommodate one million books in open stacks, rare book archives, and storerooms on several levels. The 14,149-square-meter Archive includes spaces for research and exhibition. Both the Library and the Archive are clad in quartzite and feature unique curtain walls. The museum and administration buildings are expected to open in late fall 2011.