架构师提供的文本描述。2005年，AnnArbor区图书馆(AADL)购买了大约4英亩的土地作为一个新的分支图书馆，以服务于安娜堡市的东北象限。这将是本届政府自2002年以来建造的第三个分支图书馆，将取代4000平方英尺。位于附近商业走廊的现有条状购物中心内的分支图书馆。该遗址树木茂密，植物密集，位于休伦公园路和Traverwood大道的西南角。

Text description provided by the architects. In 2005, The Ann Arbor District Library (AADL) purchased approximately 4 acres of property for a new branch library to serve the Northeast quadrant of the city of Ann Arbor. This was to be the third branch library constructed by the current administration since 2002 and would replace a 4000 sq.ft. branch library within an existing strip mall located along a nearby commercial corridor. The site, heavily wooded and densely vegetated, is located on the Southwest corner of Huron Parkway and Traverwood Drive.

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在开始方案设计之前，我们向图书馆管理部门提出了一个研究阶段

Prior to beginning Schematic Design we proposed a Research Phase to the Library Administration & Board. This phase consisted of a series of mapping operations whereby overlapping criteria was pulled together, overlapped and plotted to determine dormant relationships, veiled potentials and to assist in the design method. Our first steps within the Research Phase included the examination of the following research topics;

-人口统计-图书馆使用/人口/增长

- Demographics – library usage/population/growth

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-媒体单位-等级制度

- Media unit - Hierarchies & relationships

-主干道

- Main to branch

-免费类型学

- Complimentary Typology

- 规划，设计

- Programming

-工作人员/用户界面

- Staff / User interface

- 收集，采集

- Collection & Circulation

-可持续战略

- Sustainable strategies

重要的不是数字，而是我们开始看到的趋势，允许我们在设计过程中在保持一定灵活性的同时预测下一个步骤。从研究中，我们确定了一些结论和建议，包括关于主要部门和分支机构之间联系的总体运作的一般和全系统的调查结果，以及更具体地针对我们的东北分支项目的结论。

It was not so much the numbers that were important but rather the trends that we began to see, allowing us to anticipate next moves while maintaining a certain amount of flexibility during the design process.. From the research, we were able to determine a number of conclusions and recommendations, including general and system wide findings concerning overall operations within the Main-to-Branch and Branch-to-Branch connections, as well as conclusions more specific to our Northeast branch project.

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经过彻底的现场分析，发现西南拐角处的房产边缘有疤痕和稀疏的植被，是一个理想和适合放置建筑脚印的地点。将大楼设在物业拐角处完成了三个主要目标：

A thorough site analysis identified edges of the property along the Southwest corner which were scarred and sparsely vegetated, an ideal and well suited location for placement of the building footprint. Locating the building at the property corner accomplished three primary objectives:

-在森林内现有的生态系统与城市居民之间建立保护屏障。

- The creation of a protective barrier between the existing eco-systems within the woods and the inhabitants of the city.

-沿街道和人行道边建立城市街道存在。

- Established urban street presence along the street and sidewalk edge.

-尽量减少场地影响，从而维持自然环境的生物多样性，减少蔓延。

- Minimal site impact, thereby maintaining the biodiversity of the natural environment and reducing sprawl.

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在场地规划过程的早期阶段，我们开始集体讨论和调查从工地采伐木材以供再使用的考虑因素。虽然人口稠密，但许多树木都是灰烬，受到了翡翠灰虫(EAB)的影响，这是一种破坏性的甲虫，它通过取食树皮下的水和营养传导组织，侵略性地攻击北美灰树，在3至5年内杀死了这棵树。据估计，截至2009年，EAB已经在加拿大中西部和南部地区杀死了超过7000万棵灰，并威胁到全国75亿棵灰树。初步研究表明，这种特殊的树种特别适合铣削，因为昆虫不会损坏木材的内部部分。由于在一个封闭、丰富的自然资源中发现了大量的价值，因此提出并考虑到了木在地板、墙壁、天花板和新的分支图书馆结构中的独特用途。

During the early stages of the site planning process, we collectively began to discuss and investigate considerations for harvesting wood from the site for re-use in the building. Although densely populated, many of the trees were Ash, suffering the effects of the Emerald Ash Borer (EAB), a destructive beetle, which aggressively attacks North American Ash trees through feeding on the water and nutrient conducting tissues under the bark, killing the tree over a period of 3 to 5 years. As of 2009 it is estimated that the EAB has killed over 70 million Ash throughout the Midwest and southern portions of Canada and threatens 7.5 billion ash trees nationwide. Preliminary research showed that this particular tree species is especially well-suited to milling, as the insect does not damage the interior portion of the wood. With so much value found in a close, abundant, natural resource, unique uses of the wood in the floors, walls, ceiling and structure of the new branch library were proposed and considered.

利用粉煤灰将成为图书馆室内设计的主要组成部分。作为室内包装，灰从主入口楼层和墙壁流入天花板，延伸到整个建筑的东部内部边缘，最终形成一个灰包阅览室，其主要景观集中在向西进入森林。此外，大断面的原木被用作结构柱，沿大的西南扩展的玻璃可以承受垂直和横向的荷载。树皮已经从这些原木柱上被剥去，露出了EAB幼虫留下的随机沟槽和雕刻物-创造了本质上的东西，这是密歇根及周边地区灰树生命和毁灭的视觉和触觉证明，让世代都能接触到该地区一种灭绝物种的尸检报告。

The utilization of the Ash would become a major component to the design of the library interior. Integrated as an interior wrapper, the Ash flows from the main entry floor and walls into a ceiling condition stretching along the entire eastern interior edge of the building and culminating in an Ash wrapped reading rooms whose primary views are focused westward into the forest. Additionally, large sections of the logs were used as structural columns, accommodating vertical and lateral loading along the large southwest expanse of glass. The bark has been stripped from these log columns exposing the randomized grooves and carvings left by the EAB larvae - creating, what is in essences, a visual and tactile testament to the life and destruction of the Ash tree in Michigan and surrounding area, allowing generations to be exposed to an autopsy report of an extinct species in the region.