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知识的分层空间昆明理工大学图书馆是昆明理工大学校园的标志性中心点。它位于呈贡校区总体规划南北和东西两条主轴线的交叉点上。

图书馆是一个基于双向对称轴组成的有清晰层次的建筑体，构成形式来源于昆明理工大学的校徽。它是一组十字型叠加的盒子，最高点位于对称轴中心。图书馆的各楼层被组织在这些盒子里。中心塔楼有一个圆形的天井作为主要中庭空间。它坐落在一个一层楼高的基座建筑上，通过楼梯到达基座上方位于二层楼的图书馆大厅层。基座建筑内有礼堂，教室和自习室，通过圆形中庭与图书馆主体建筑相连，同时也可通过有屋檐的走廊到达周边校区。

借鉴路易•康的理念，我们问了类似的问题：是什么构成了理想的大学图书馆？除了提供空间来阅读和学习，我们希望同时提供空间用来会面和交流。圆形中庭提供了一个理想的邂逅空间，使用者通过这个空间到达图书馆的不同区域。圆形中庭的玻璃穹顶为这个空间提供了充足的自然光线。

Ordered Spaces of Knowledge

This library is regarded as the symbolic center of the university campus. It is located at the intersection between the main North-South and East-West axes of the university master plan.

The library is a building of clear formal hierarchy with bi-axial symmetry based on the logo of the university, which is a group of stacked boxes in a cruciform plan with the tallest stack in the center. Library floors are organized within the boxes whilst the central tower has a rotunda atrium used as the main circulatory space. It sits on a one-storey tall plinth designed with steps rising to the main lobby floor of the library. The plinth building houses auditoriums, classrooms and self-study spaces on the ground level, and is connected to the library through the rotunda. It also serves as a sheltered thoroughfare to the surroundings.

Learning from Kahn, we asked a similar question: What constitutes the ideal University Library? Besides providing spaces to study, we wanted the library to provide spaces for meeting people and interaction. The rotunda provided an ideal space for chance meetings because visitors use it move between different sections of the library. It has a glass roof and is filled with natural light.

大学客户方要求我们对圆形中庭提出新的设计，原始中庭设计有一个钢筋混凝土的封闭式柱形螺旋楼梯。我们最初的方案是拆除单一功能的封闭式柱形楼梯空间，沿着圆形中庭的边缘建造一系列的开敞式环形楼梯，每层楼梯之间有一个突出的环形平台连接。这个宽敞的平台作为大家休息和会面的交流空间，同时可以在这里欣赏中庭楼梯空间内随意移动的人们的生动画面。遗憾的是，虽然客户非常认同和赞赏这个方案，由于工程造价问题，最终未能实施，而是保留了封闭式的柱形楼梯空间。

为了仍然满足圆形中庭作为交流和主要交通空间的功能，我们在环绕着每一层中庭空间的立柱之间设计了高靠背的座位和类似讲台的阅读桌 。高靠背的座椅面向走廊，使用者在这个半私密的空间阅读或交谈，同时可以沐浴中庭射入的自然光线。类似讲台的阅读桌则面向中庭，使阅读者面对着竖向贯通着10个楼层的中庭空间，就像在进行一场气势恢宏的演讲。这些家具设置，为图书馆的使用者提供了空间来停留、偶遇和交流。这个循环功能的空间因此成为了一个目的地，而不仅仅是一个单一功能的过渡空间。在细节表述方面，从一楼中庭空间到顶楼，我们将诗经中«荀子篇»的诗文按顺序雕刻在座椅和书桌上，象征着在知识之路的不断前进和求索。

The University asked us to rethink the current design of the rotunda atrium, which had enclosed a spiral staircase in a reinforced concrete column. Our initial design for the rotunda is to demolish the mono functional spiral stairs in a column, and replace it with a series of staircases along the round edge of each floor plate that link every 2 floors in a continuous spiral around the central atrium. This would have created balcony-like landings for resting and meeting, and visually enliven the rotunda space with the natural movement of visitors. Unfortunately, the final decision was to keep the closed spiral staircase because of cost considerations even though the open staircase scheme was more favorable.

In order to still fulfill the potential of the rotunda as a place for chance meetings, we designed tall-backed seats and lectern-like reading desks to be installed in between the columns on every floor surrounding the rotunda atrium. The tall-backed seats face inward to the corridor and provide partial sound privacy to the seat user whilst allowing natural light from the atrium to benefit reading or dialogue. The users of the lecterns face inwards to the center of the atrium, as if the user is giving a speech to an audience vertically organized along the 10 circular floors of the rotunda. These integrated furniture elements provide the library users spaces for pause, and facilitate spontaneous interactions or chance meetings between visitors. The circulatory space thus becomes a destination itself, rather than just being a transitional mono-functional space. As a symbolic narrative and a detail of the furniture, verses from the poem “Xunzi” are engraved in sequence onto the seats and lecterns from the lobby floor to the top floor to symbolize the upwards path towards knowledge.