架构师提供的文本描述。拉斐特公园娱乐中心是洛杉矶第一个完成LEED认证的建筑。该项目是一个15，000平方米的增加，并改造了一个现有的1963年社区中心，导致了一个L形的计划。设计方面的挑战是提供廉价的公共建筑，这将是低到无维护，功能和吸引力。

Text description provided by the architects. The Lafayette Park Recreation Center is the first completed LEED-certified building for The City of Los Angeles. The project is a 15,000 sqf addition to, and remodel of an existing 1963 community center, resulting in an L-shaped plan. The design challenge was to deliver an inexpensive public building that would be low- to no- maintenance, functional and attractive.

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解决办法是以创造性的方式使用廉价的材料来建造一座对其所服务的社区来说是一个受欢迎的目的地，在任何特定时间都有750多名学龄儿童。混凝土砌体单元的补充，以补充砖的现有建筑物，混凝土结构基础，玻璃和瓦楞纸金属面板，提供一个持久和易于清洁的娱乐中心，具有强烈的视觉冲击力。

The solution was to employ inexpensive materials in creative ways to produce a building that is a welcoming destination for the community it serves, which include over 750 school age children at any given time. Concrete masonry units were supplemented to complement the brick of the existing building, concrete structural foundations, and glass and corrugated metal panels, delivering a durable and easy-to-clean recreational center with a strong visual impact.

在新的建筑中，一个横冲直撞的入口提供了从周围公园进入体育馆的通道(有NCAA规定的篮球场)。该项目还包括一个大型大堂/会议室、教室、行政办公室、社区室、厨房和餐厅。

In the new building a ramped entry provides access to the gymnasium (with an NCAA regulation basketball court) from the surrounding park. The project also includes a large lobby/meeting room, classrooms, an administrative office, community rooms, a kitchen and dining room.

在体育馆的北侧，一堵玻璃幕墙从地板延伸到离地面近30英尺的地方。这引入了自然光的空间，是一个视觉延伸的公园以外。在体育馆周围的混凝土砌块周围，墙上镶嵌着玻璃砌块。照明效果是戏剧性的-在白天，明亮的过滤阳光流进来。此外，混凝土砌块墙也作为结构剪力墙单元来加固建筑物。

On the northern side of the gymnasium, a glass curtain wall extends from the floor to nearly 30 feet above the ground. This introduces natural light into the space and is a visual extension of the park beyond. Around the perimeter of the gym concrete blocks wall are inset with glass blocks. The lighting effect in is dramatic – during the day, bright filtered sunlight streams in. In addition the concrete block walls also serves as structural sheer wall elements to reinforce the building.

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体育馆的外墙是波纹金属壁板，水平带灰色和天然银，这在视觉上降低了建筑物的高度，给它一个行人的尺度。

The exterior facades of the gym are clad with corrugated metal siding horizontally banded grey and natural silver, which visually diminishes the height of the building and gives it a pedestrian scale.

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