英国伯明翰图书馆/Mecanoo

发布于：2023-06-29 09:54:50

Library of Birmingham by Mecanoo
设计方：Mecanoo
位置：英国
分类：教育建筑
内容：实景照片
图片来源：Christian Richters
图片：27张

荷兰工作室Mecanoo完成了位于英国伯明翰的一个新的公共图书馆。这座图书馆有一个凹圆形的剧场，屋顶花园和正面一个闪闪发光的有锁链的金属环。伯明翰图书馆位于19世纪30年代的一个建筑单元和一个19世纪60年的剧院之间，这座新图书馆位于三个广场的世纪广场前面。这座建筑由堆在一起的四个矩形卷构成，这种交错的排列方式创造了各种各样的树冠和台阶。
Mecanoo工作室在设计这座建筑的外观时，引用了这个城市的珠宝象征。在金，银，玻璃外墙中添加了一个金属环结构。一个稍微倾斜的地板为改网址上前庭到后门在建筑水平上的变化。从这里也可以引导游客进入后面的小说区，再往里深入就是建筑基础地区的儿童图书馆和音乐区。
可延伸的最低地区在世纪广场，建筑师们创造了一个凹式庭院作为一个非正式的圆形剧场。三个主要的阅读室在建筑中心的交错圆形大厅衍生出三个分支。在这里有一排排的书架和集群的研究空间，周边还有椅子和长凳，可以欣赏到下面广场的景观。档案和研究室占据了上了空间，建筑顶部的一个椭圆形空间被设置成莎士比亚纪念馆，在这里有英国剧作家威廉·莎士比亚的馆藏作品。回溯到1882年，这个房间已经被搬迁过两次。

译者：蝈蝈

Dutch studio Mecanoo has completed a new public library in Birmingham, England, with a sunken amphitheatre, rooftop gardens and a shimmering facade clad with interlocking metal rings.Sandwiched between a 1930s building block and a 1960s theatre, the new Library of Birmingham fronts one of three piazzas that comprises Centenary Square. The building is made up of a stack of four rectangular volumes, which are staggered to create various canopies and terraces.
Mecanoo designed the exterior of the building to reference the city's jewellery quarter, adding a filigree pattern of metal rings over golden, silver and glass facades. A gently sloping floor allows the building to negotiate the level change from the front to the back of the site, but also leads visitors down to the fiction area at the back, then down to the children's library and music section at the base of the building.
The lowest level extends out beneath Centenary Square, where the architects have created a sunken circular courtyard that functions as an informal amphitheatre.The three main reading-room floors branch out from a staggered rotunda at the centre of the building, integrating rows of bookshelves and clusters of study spaces. There are also benches and stools lining the perimeter, offering views down the square below.
Archives and research spaces occupy the levels above, while an oval space at the top of the structure houses the Shakespeare Memorial Room - dedicated to the library's extensive collection of works by English playwright William Shakespeare. Dating back to 1882, the room has been relocated twice from former library buildings.