瓦里纳地区图书馆

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架构师提供的文本描述。新的43，885 SF瓦利纳地区图书馆被设想为一个个人转变和社区进步的地方，以及一个学习中心。在我们客户的图书馆服务模式的基础上，我们努力识别图书馆设计中的那些元素，这些元素体现了独特的思想、举措和创新，适合于这个特定社区的图书馆。

Text description provided by the architects. The new 43,885SF Varina Area Library was envisioned as a place for individual transformation and community advancement as well as a hub for learning. Building on our client’s model for library service, we strove to discern those elements of library design embodying ideas, initiatives and innovations uniquely suited to this library for this particular community.

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首先，我们赞成图书馆应反映和加强当地文化和特色的想法。这个图书馆不仅植根于社区，而且植根于自然环境。它被配置成一系列的亭台楼阁，从景观中层出不穷。展馆的形式反映了社区的乡土建筑遗产，隐约让人联想到一堆烟草仓。内部和外部建筑材料的简单调色板加强了这一概念。

First, we embraced the idea that the Library should reflect and reinforce local culture and character. This library is rooted in its natural environment as much as it is rooted in the community. It is configured to be a series of pavilions emerging from and cascading down the landscape. The forms of the pavilions reflect the community’s vernacular architectural heritage, being vaguely reminiscent of a collection of tobacco barns. A simple palette of building materials inside and out reinforces this concept.

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第二，我们创建了一个活跃的图书馆，在那里，有生产力的人可以参与藏书、图书管理员、其他赞助人以及他们自己的野心。该设计支持团队协作项目，个人需要集中注意力，并提供空间，以创造性-无论是数字的还是有形的。除了有一个很棒的社区会议室和一个教学厨房外，馆内的各种空间也被配置成让人们自己高效地使用信息、与他人共享信息、完成项目(单独或集体)、获取新的视角和创建新的信息。一些展馆更注重收藏。在白天的环境中，以田园式的视角来加强学习。这些空间两侧有各种形式的小组空间-从传统的书房桌到软座位和咖啡桌。

Second, we created an active library where productive people can engage with collections, librarians, other patrons, and their own ambitions. The design supports group collaboration projects, individuals needing focused concentration, and provides spaces to be creative – both digitally and tangibly. In addition to having a great community meeting room, with a teaching kitchen, various spaces around the collections are configured for people to productively use information themselves, share information with others, complete projects (alone or in groups), garner new perspectives and create new information.  Some pavilions have more of a collections focus, punctuated with daylit environments for enhanced learning with bucolic views.  These spaces are flanked by group spaces in a variety of formats – from traditional study tables to soft seating and coffee tables

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Upper Level Plan

高层规划

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接下来，我们想要一个欢迎的设计，为“容易购物”。库配置认识到，活动生命有时需要“抓取和离开”事务。因此，图书馆的设计在方便的高度采用宽通道和书架，使书名倾斜，便于阅读和选择。此外，许多人还会欣赏整个服务驱动窗口。此外，图书馆入口有目的地“非正规化”，以建立一个“侧门”欢迎方式，进入两个展馆之间。这一特征通过在每个展馆设置一个“后廊”俯瞰树林而得到加强。

Next, we wanted a welcoming design made for “easy shopping.” The Library configuration recognizes that active lives sometimes require “grab and go” transactions. Therefore, the library’s design incorporates wide aisles and shelves at convenient heights which tilt the books’ titles up for easier viewing and selecting. Also, many will appreciate the full service drive-up window.  Additionally, the library entrance is purposefully “de-formalized” to establish a “side-door” welcoming approach, coming in between two pavilions.  This character is reinforced by setting up each pavilion with a “back porch” overlook to the woods.

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主要展馆之间的空间从场地的入门层一直延伸到树林。这一空间通向儿童图书馆和社区集合空间。中间的空间被用来加强当地的网络联系，提供空间供在标志性台阶上的临时相遇，以及底部的咖啡馆空间和露台。这个空间也是偶尔观看电影的场所。

The space between the primary pavilions cascades from the entry level down the slope of the site to the woods.  This space leads to the Children’s Library as well as the Community Gathering spaces.  This in-between space is employed to enhance local networking by providing space for ad hoc encounters on the monumental steps and at the café space and terrace at the bottom. This space also serves as an occasional venue for viewing movies.

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© Chris Cunningham

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瓦里纳地区图书馆的建筑本身反映了社区对文化和个人进步的渴望，同时也是形成地方社区文化的历史的合乎逻辑的延伸。我们的目标是使这个图书馆对亨利科县这一地区的新一代图书馆用户有意义、有用和富有成效。

The architecture of the Varina Area Library identifies itself as a reflection of the community’s aspirations for cultural and individual advancement while also being a logical extension of the history that shaped local community culture. Our goal was to make this library relevant, useful, and productive for the emerging generations of library users in this part of Henrico County.

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Architects BCWH Architects

Location Henrico County, VA, United States

Category Library

Architects in Charge Charles W. Wray, Jeffery M. Hoover, Andrea Quilici, Kylan Shirley

Area 44000.0 ft2

Project Year 2016

Photographs Chris Cunningham

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