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架构师提供的文本描述。2011年沃尔特斯

Text description provided by the architects. In 2011 Walters & Cohen won an invited competition to design a new arts building for the American School in London.

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这座四层楼高的建筑被设计成一个单一的大房子，它的灵感来源于它在相邻的地方所列出的、半独立的别墅的质量和足迹。这个项目的复杂性是因为它位于圣约翰森林保护区的一个突出的拐角处，在那里提议的开发吸引了很多人的注意。我们与学校杰出的董事会、区议员和地方政治家进行了联络，并在为期三天的公共展览中介绍了概念设计。这项计划非常受欢迎。

Taking its cue from the mass and footprint of the listed, semi-detached villas on the site adjacent, the four-storey building is designed to resemble a single large property. The complexity of the project is heightened by its location on a prominent corner plot in the St John’s Wood conservation area, where proposed developments attract a lot of attention. We liaised with the school’s distinguished board of governors, ward councillors and local politicians, and presented the concept design in a three-day public exhibition. The scheme was extremely well received.

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研究并向规划者和总监提供了一系列的材料，包括循环玻璃、灰泥槽和大理石；在考虑其优雅和传统品质的情况下，石材被认为是最合适的材料。所得到的法书是一种独特的设计作品，以一种真正现代的方式表达永恒的宝石品质。灯光在FAUade上播放，使笛子图案变平并伪装一分钟，只在下一步大胆地表达它。这座建筑既具有优雅的轻盈，又有重力、独特和现代，但却毫不费力地将其地位作为其更成熟的邻国中的平等地位。

A range of materials for the external façades were researched and presented to the planners and governors, including recycled glass, stucco flutes and marble; stone was considered the most appropriate material on account of its elegance and traditional qualities. The resulting façade is a unique piece of design that draws on the timeless quality of stone, expressed in a truly contemporary manner. Light plays on the façade, flattening and disguising the flute pattern one minute, only to boldly express it in the next. The building has both an elegant lightness and a weight and gravitas, unique and contemporary yet effortlessly taking its place as an equal among its more mature neighbours.

Ground Floor Plan

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这座新建筑的雕塑质量与里面的作品很相配。底层提供展览空间，其他三层有艺术、雕塑、陶瓷和摄影工作室。一个优雅的混凝土框架提供大跨度，无柱的工作室空间在各级，带来日光从北部和南部，并创造一个灵活，宽敞和舒适的环境，让学生可以发展他们的艺术。

The new building’s sculptural quality is fitting to the work that goes on inside. The ground floor provides exhibition space, with art, sculpture, ceramics and photography studios on the other three floors. An elegant concrete frame provides long span, column-free studio space at all levels, bringing in daylight from the north and south and creating a flexible, spacious and comfortable environment in which pupils can develop their art.

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产品描述.贝斯波克石材外墙：s mcconnell

Product Description. Bespoke stone façade: S McConnell & Sons with Stone Cladding International Limited

在伦敦的美国学校的新艺术建筑的外观是一个独特的设计，借鉴了永恒的质量的石头，以真正的当代方式。它是设计团队和石匠之间紧密合作的产物，完全接受现代制造技术所能提供的东西。

The façade of the new art building at the American School in London is a unique piece of design that draws on the timeless quality of stone, expressed in a truly contemporary manner. It is the product of close collaboration between the design team and the stonemason and thoroughly embraces what modern manufacturing techniques can offer.

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石匠S.麦康奈尔

The stonemason S. McConnell & Sons’ skills and computer-driven manufacturing processes allowed each stone of the façade to be cut to an individual pattern, which meant there were more possibilities to design something innovative and unique to the School. The chosen motif creates a gradual fade on the vertical flutes, from 20mm deep at the base to a flat-faced stone at the head of the building. The complex 3D-modelling expertise of the stonemason made a non-linear reduction possible, meaning that the depth of the flute remains greater for the first two thirds of the building before tapering more quickly above the head of the windows.

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