架构师提供的文本描述。这个小型学生中心是位于国际扶轮普罗维登斯的惠勒学校城市校园的枢纽和枢纽。校园受到其财产规模、有限的绿地和历史街区内位置的限制。校园由坚固的、体制性的砖砌建筑和改造后的住宅结构组成，面向内部，背对着社区。诺尔曼刘易斯学生中心设置了一个不同的课程：透明的，欢迎的，明确的当代的。这是新来港的门户，面向和欢迎社会人士。环境和社区可能认为，传统建筑将是唯一合适的答案其背景，但这座建筑展望未来，推动当代设计表达在一个历史背景下。

Text description provided by the architects. This small Student Center is a hub and hinge for The Wheeler School’s urban campus in Providence, RI. The campus is constrained by its property size, limited green space, and location within an historic neighborhood. Composed of solid, institutional brick buildings and converted residential structures, the campus faces inward, with its back turned to the community. The Nulman Lewis Student Center sets a different course: transparent, welcoming, and decidedly contemporary. It is the new arrival portal, facing and welcoming the community. The setting and neighborhood may have assumed that a traditional building would be the only appropriate answer for its context, but this building looks forward, advancing contemporary design expression within an historic context.

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学生中心的项目可以是广泛的和昂贵的。只有5000平方英尺的占地面积，这座小小的连接建筑使得相邻的空间对学校的项目更有用。选定的地点，一个以前的维护和垃圾箱区，现在加强了校园边缘，并创造了一个连接到扩大的校园庭院。这座新建筑连接了两座历史建筑-校友会和学生会-并提供了沿着新校园脊柱的便捷通道。每一天，超过1，000名学生进入这个结构，从那里，他们发现相邻的翻新咖啡厅，储物柜，教室和信息中心-和彼此。教职员工、学生、教师和家长们，都把这里变成了他们小小的、看得见的壁炉，可以看到校园里的景色，也可以看到更远的历史街区。

Programs for student centers can be expansive and expensive. With only a 5,000 sqf footprint, this modest connective building has helped make adjacent spaces more useful to the school program. The selected site, a former maintenance and dumpster area, now strengthens a campus edge, and creates a connection to the enlarged campus courtyard. The new building links two historic buildings, the Alumni House and Student Union, and provides easy passage along a new campus spine. Every school day, over 1,000 students enter this structure, and from there, they find the adjacent renovated café, lockers, classrooms, and information center — and each other. Staff and students, faculty and parents, have made this their small and visible hearth, with views into the campus, and to the historic neighborhood beyond.

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与独特的水平玻璃和锌面板幕墙系统，这座建筑结合了能见度和不透明度。它的聚集与相邻历史街区的居住规模有关，是对其配套建筑的建筑组织和水平基准的响应。在内部，建筑物的现浇混凝土结构被暴露在连续和持久的墙壁和地板上。通过这个有意简单和不那么“完成”的设计，学生们看到了建筑是如何组合在一起的。用玻璃栏杆建造的钢楼梯连接着三座建筑物的水平。作为景观和场地设计的一部分，新建筑校园一侧的台阶混凝土平台提供了一个聚集的场所。

Clad with a distinctive horizontal glass and zinc panel curtain wall system, this building combines visibility and opacity. Its massing relates to the residential scale of the adjacent historic neighborhood, and responds to the architectural organization and horizontal datum of its companion buildings. On the interior, the building’s cast-in-place concrete structure is left exposed as a continuous and durable finish for walls and floors. Through this intentionally simple and less “finished” design, students see how the building was put together. A steel stair with glass balustrades connects the levels of three buildings. As part of the landscape and site design, a stepped concrete plinth on the campus side of the new building provides a place for gathering.

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致力于可持续性，该项目包括一个绿色屋顶，吸收雨水，减少对雨水系统的影响，并保持建筑物内部凉爽。其他可持续的特点包括：带有光传感器的采光照明系统；高效率的机械系统；具有响应窗口方向和太阳增益的高效率玻璃的幕墙围护结构；用于遮阳直射阳光的深水平窗口轮廓；以及教室和走廊中的独处天窗。在建筑中使用的许多材料都有可回收的内容-教室台面是100%的后消费者纸板；声学天花板瓷砖包含约70%的再生材料；所有新地毯在100%的可持续支持系统中是25%的回收内容。这座大楼已成为环境和负责任地使用材料和废物问题的教学工具。

Committed to sustainability, the project includes a green roof, absorbing rainwater, reducing the impact on the storm water system, and keeping the building interior cooler. Other sustainable features include a daylight harvesting lighting system with light sensors; high efficiency mechanical systems; a curtain wall envelope with high efficiency glass that responds to window orientation and solar gain; deep horizontal window mullion profiles for shading direct sunlight; and solitube skylights in classrooms and corridors. Many of the materials used in the building have recycled content— classroom counter tops are 100% post-consumer cardboard; acoustical ceiling tiles contain approximately 70% recycled material; and all new carpet is 25% recycled content on a 100% sustainable backing system. This building has become a teaching tool for issues of environment and responsible use of materials and waste.

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