架构师提供的文本描述。查尔斯科雷亚协会设计了这个研究和诊断中心设在里斯本。这是一个由世界上最好的科学家指导的最先进的设施.科雷亚说：“我对这个项目最自豪的是它不是现代艺术博物馆。相反，它使用当代科学和医学的最高水平来帮助人们解决真正的问题：癌症、脑损伤和失明。为了容纳这些尖端的活动，我们试图创造一个建筑作品。建筑雕塑。建筑如美。美如治疗。“

Text description provided by the architects. Charles Correa Associates designed this research and diagnostic center located in Lisbon. It is a state-of-the-art facility guided by some of the best scientist in the world. Correa says, “What makes me most proud about this project is that it is NOT a Museum of Modern Art. On the contrary, it uses the highest levels of contemporary science and medicine to help people grappling with real problems; cancer, brain damage and going blind. And to house these cutting-edge activities, we tried to create a piece of architecture. Architecture as Sculpture. Architecture as Beauty. Beauty as therapy.”

这条河与大西洋交汇的地方历史悠久。科雷亚指出，这里是航行者亨利、瓦斯科·德伽马和其他伟大的葡萄牙人进入未知世界的地方-这是当代科学发现的完美隐喻。

The site, where the river meets the Atlantic Ocean, is steeped in history. It is the site where Henry the Navigator, Vasco de Gama and other great Portuguese left on their journeys into the unknown—a perfect metaphor for the discoveries of contemporary science today, Correa points out.

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构成该项目的3个单元(医生和科学家的最大单元，剧院、展厅、基金会办公室等的第二个单元，以及城市的露天竞技场)已被安排成一条长达1.25亿条的通道，通过对角线穿过场地，通向公海。

The 3 units that constitute the project (the largest for the doctors and scientist, the second for the theatre, the exhibition hall, the Foundation offices, etc, and the third is an open-air amphitheater for the city) have been arranged to create a 125m long pathway leading diagonally across the site, towards the open seas.

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这条路被提升(在1：20的缓坡上)-所以当你提升时，你只看到前方的天空。坡道的尽头是两个石，直接从采石场出来。当你到达最高点时，你开始看到一大片水，它似乎连接着(即，没有任何视觉上的中断)与远处的海洋。在这个水体的中心，就在水面下面，是一个椭圆形的物体-用不锈钢做的，稍微凸出一点，这样它就能反射出蓝天和上空的云彩。

This pathway is ramped up (at a gentle slope of 1:20) – so as you ascend, you see only sky ahead of you. At the end of the ramp are two stone monoliths, straight from the quarry. When you reach the highest point, you begin to see a large body of water, which seemingly connects (i.e., without any visual break) to the ocean beyond. In the center of this water body, just below the surface of the water, is an oval shaped object—made of stainless steel and slightly convex, so that it reflects the blue sky and passing clouds above.

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