纽约布鲁克林植物园游客中心

公司：	WEISS/MANFREDI	Type：	建筑
Area：	美国	Label：	游客中心

植物园与其他的博物馆不同，它的“藏品”是非常脆弱的，同时它是一种建造中的“自然”环境，有赖于人工基础设施。纽约市的布鲁克林植物园包括各种日本园、樱桃园、奥斯本园、眺望园和克兰福德玫瑰园等不同自然园林。项目作为城市中的一个绿洲，通过高架护坡和树木与社区隔开，在视觉上是很有吸引力的。

A botanic garden is an unusual kind of museum, a fragile collection constantly in flux. As a constructed “natural” environment, it is dependent on manmade infrastructures to thrive. New York City’s Brooklyn Botanic Garden contains a wide variety of landscapes organized into discrete settings such as the Japanese Garden, the Cherry Esplanade, the Osborne Garden, the Overlook, and the Cranford Rose Garden. The Botanic Garden exists as an oasis in the city, visually separated from the neighborhood by elevated berms and trees.

为激发人们对植物的好奇和兴趣，布鲁克林植物园游客中心提供了具有标志性的地点，也是花园与城市、文化与种植的交界处。这座建筑被设想成一种可居住的地形，它在城市和五十二英亩的花园之间定义了一个新的边界。

To provoke curiosity and interest in its world-class collection, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden Visitor Center provides a legible point of arrival and orientation, an interface between garden and city, culture and cultivation. The building is conceived as an inhabitable topography that defines a new threshold between the city and the constructed landscapes of the fifty-two-acre garden.

游客中心坐落于华盛顿大道，在布鲁克林博物馆停车场的护堤中，与植物园隔开，游客可以清楚地看到方向，并且可以进入日本花园和樱桃园等大型花卉园。它包括一个展览厅，信息大厅，简介室，礼品店，咖啡厅和活动空间。

Sited at Washington Avenue and within the berm that separates the Brooklyn Museum parking lot from the Botanic Garden, the Visitor Center provides clear orientation and access to the major garden precincts such as the Japanese Garden and the Cherry Esplanade. The Center includes an exhibition gallery, information lobby, orientation room, gift shop, café, and an events space.

和花园本身一样，在建筑内的空间也有丰富的体验。游览区蜿蜒曲折的形态来自于现有的花园道路。在街道上可以看到华盛顿大街的主入口。第二条路线从护堤顶部开始，滑过游客中心，勾勒出日本花园的景色，然后通过梯形斜坡进入花园主楼层。

Like the gardens themselves, the building is experienced cinematically and is never seen in its entirety. The serpentine form of the Visitor Center is generated by the garden’s existing pathways. The primary entry to the building from Washington Avenue is visible from the street; a secondary route from the top of the berm slides through the Visitor Center, frames views of the Japanese Garden, and descends through a stepped ramp to the main level of the Garden.

中央展览馆的弧形玻璃墙是建筑与景观过渡，玻璃片的表面能过滤光，并为花园提供一处隐秘的景观。相反，北面的中心则刻在护堤上。钢架上部结构与弯曲的平面相适应，形成起伏的屋顶雨棚。该建筑采用土质和选择性熔块玻璃，以达到高性能的建筑围护结构，最小化热量吸收，最大限度地提高自然光照。地热能交换系统是用来加热和冷却内部空间的。其它可持续性战略包括绿色屋顶、雨水管理和用于灌溉一系列景观露台的雨水收集。

The curved glass walls of the Center’s gallery are mediating surfaces between the building and the landscape. The fritted surfaces of the glass filter light and provide veiled views into the Garden. By contrast, the north side of the center is inscribed into the berm. The steel-framed superstructure adjusts to the curved plan and gives shape to the undulating roof canopy. The building utilizes earth mass and spectrally selective fritted glass to achieve a high-performing building envelope, minimizing heat gain, and maximizing natural illumination. A geothermal heat-exchange system is used to heat and cool the interior spaces. Additional sustainable strategies include a green roof, storm water management, and rainwater collection that irrigate a series of landscaped terraces.

类似“变色龙”的颜色一样，游客中心从街道上的建筑形式过渡到植物园的结构景观中。这个中心重新定义了游人与花园的物理和哲学关系，在景观与结构、展览与运动之间引入了新的联系。

A chameleon-like structure, the visitor center transitions from an architectural presence at the street into a structured landscape in the botanic garden. The Center redefines the physical and philosophical relationship between visitor and garden, introducing new connections between landscape and structure, exhibition and movement.