小体量：图书馆设计

来源：搜建筑

阿肯色州的松崖曾经是密西西比三角洲的一颗明珠，位于南部的松树与阿肯色河沿岸广阔的农田相接之处。和许多三角洲城市一样，随着工业的搬迁和河流交通的减少，Pine Bluff也在稳步衰落。这座曾经拥有7万人口的城市的人口降至4万，在全国因犯罪而声名狼藉，影响了它吸引产业和留住本土人才的能力。 Pine Bluff, Arkansas was once a Mississippi Delta jewel, positioned where southern pines meet vast farmlands along the Arkansas River. Like many delta cities, Pine Bluff was in steady decline as industries relocated and river traffic waned. The city that once boasted 70,000 people fell to 40,000 in population, gaining a negative national reputation for crime, hurting its ability to draw industry and retain homegrown talent.

阿肯色州的松崖曾经是密西西比三角洲的一颗明珠，位于南部的松树与阿肯色河沿岸广阔的农田相接之处。和许多三角洲城市一样，随着工业的搬迁和河流交通的减少，Pine Bluff也在稳步衰落。这座曾经拥有7万人口的城市的人口降至4万，在全国因犯罪而声名狼藉，影响了它吸引产业和留住本土人才的能力。

Pine Bluff, Arkansas was once a Mississippi Delta jewel, positioned where southern pines meet vast farmlands along the Arkansas River. Like many delta cities, Pine Bluff was in steady decline as industries relocated and river traffic waned. The city that once boasted 70,000 people fell to 40,000 in population, gaining a negative national reputation for crime, hurting its ability to draw industry and retain homegrown talent.

曾经拥有该州最大剧院的繁华大街现在两旁都是空荡荡的破旧店面……市中心感觉被遗弃了。当几座建筑物倒塌在大街上时，城市领导人和市民联合起来拯救大街并创造经济激励措施；市民们想要扭转他们城市的进程。一项举措是将知识放在最前沿，新的主图书馆位于一个显眼的大街拐角处，那里的建筑物被烧毁/倒塌，作为市中心和整个松崖重生的象征。

A once thriving Main Street that boasted the State’s largest theater now stood lined with empty dilapidated storefronts…downtown felt abandoned. When several buildings collapsed onto Main Street, city leaders and citizens banded together to save Main Street and create economic incentives; the citizens wanted to reverse the course of their city. One initiative was to set knowledge to the forefront with a new Main Library positioned on a prominent Main Street corner where buildings had burned/collapsed as a symbol of rebirth for downtown and Pine Bluff as a whole.

公开会议表明，希望创建一个“社区客厅”，重点关注儿童和青少年，以给予希望、鼓励和对知识的渴望，以激发留下、再投资和重建城市的愿望。市民想要一个令人振奋、鼓舞人心、充满光的地方，同时又感到安全和有保障。他们想要一个指向“提升期望”的未来的地方。出现的是一个嵌入社区的支持性学习中心，不仅提供书籍，还提供表演空间、教学厨房、录音室、咖啡馆以及成人和青少年的计算机培训。

Public meetings revealed the desire to create a“living room for the community” that focuses heavily on children and youth to give hope, encouragement, and the desire for knowledge to spark the desire to stay, reinvest, and rebuild their city. Citizens wanted a place that was uplifting, inspirational, and full of natural light while feeling safe and secure. They wanted a place that pointed to a future that“lifted expectations. What emerged was a community-embedded supportive learning center, offering not only books, but also a performance space, a teaching kitchen, recording studios, a café, and computer training for adults and youth.

建筑方案将书籍与更专门的教育/专业空间平均划分，生成了两种不同的平行形式的图表，转变为开放的视图和接受光线，并通过功能和场地的奇怪形状连接起来。沿着主街的商店里有公共书库，儿童图书馆就在上面:知识在这里展示。

一个动态的悬臂式开放礼堂完全自由地漂浮在主入口上方，向北升起，作为大胆的进步的希望语言。礼堂的台阶将儿童图书馆与俯瞰整个图书馆和市中心的青少年阁楼连接起来，这是一个充满活力的空间，象征着年轻人对城市的重要性。令人惊讶的是，开放的台阶也吸引了当地大学的学生，他们选择在自己校园的公共图书馆学习和闲逛。

A building program that equally divided books with more dedicated education/specialized spaces generated a diagram of two distinct parallel forms, shifted to open views and accept the light, and articulated by function and the site’s odd shape. Public stacks are in storefronts along Main Street with the children’s library framed above: knowledge is on display. A dynamic cantilevered open auditorium floats completely free above the main entrance, lifting to the north as a bold progressive language of hope. Auditorium steps connect the children’s library up to a Teen Loft that overlooks the entire library and downtown, a dynamic space symbolizing the importance of young people to the city. Surprisingly, the open steps have drawn the local university’s students as well, choosing to study and hang out at the public library over their own campus.

图书馆有两个主要入口，连接主街的交叉口，通过建筑到西边的停车场。该方案在流通台处创造了一个行人交叉点，作为从上方照明的内部街道。一个连续的夹层允许屋顶干净地自由浮动，使两层楼的光线充斥。

西面的立面随着奇特的场地形状而弯曲，由于一个私人财产打断了街区，通过一个活动草坪与停车场相连。一个大胆的椭圆形圆柱体容纳了各种功利性功能，成为弯曲形式的铰链点，并成为从周围停车场和街道进入的视觉标志。西面的立面让人联想到书架上的书，利用不同宽度的细长窗户和垂直翅片来减轻热增益。

The library has two primary entrances connecting Main Street’s intersection through the building to parking on the west. The plan parti creates a pedestrian intersection at the circulation desk as an internal street lit from above. A continuous clerestory allows the roof to cleanly float free, flooding both floors with light. The west fa?ade bends with the odd site’s odd shape due to a private property interrupting the block, connecting to parking through an activity lawn. A bold oval-shaped cylinder housing utilitarian functions become the hinge point for the bending form and a visual marker of the entrance from the surrounding parking and streets. The western fa?ade is reminiscent of books on a shelf, utilizing slender windows of varying widths and vertical fins to mitigate heat gain.