獵人角社區圖書館，紐約，美國

建筑設計：斯蒂文霍爾建筑師事務所

皇后區獵人角社區圖書館位于東河沿岸的重要地段，占地約2044m2，背后是一棟棟拔地而起的高層公寓樓。作為公共建筑和市民公園，圖書館為長島市河濱地區提供了面向社區的公共空間。

近來，公共圖書館和本就短缺的社交空間愈有并入高檔住宅樓的趨勢，獨自矗立的獵人角圖書館是對這一趨勢的抵制。在約2973m2的場地上，建筑占地面積極少，意圖在最大限度為當地社區提供綠地空間的同時，使之成為充滿活力的河濱市民公園不可或缺的組成部分。

垂直結構以全新的方式重構了傳統圖書館的空間模式，從而營造出從閱覽區到活動區等多種不同空間。除作為立面之外，鋁涂層混凝土外殼還取代幕墻和柱子作為建筑的承重結構。立面上有鏤空開口，在展示室內人群活動的同時，勾勒出曼哈頓天際線的廣闊視野。

從東立面的窗口可以看出，圖書館分為兒童區、青少年區和成人區。每個區域各有一個立面窗口與之對應，但空間整體是流動的。室內空間面向社區開放，并用暖色的竹子營造出對各個年齡段的人都具有吸引力的社交空間。此外，透過各面的玻璃窗，自然光的射入更為室內空間增添了幾分生機與活力。

沿開放樓梯向上，與書架毗鄰處布置有數字工作站，由此實現了電子書和紙質書的結合。藏書空間之下的底層禮堂為公眾會議和活動提供了空間。各夾層之間有樓梯相連，以此聯系不同閱覽區。在樓梯盡端，設有屋頂閱覽平臺。極目遠眺，城市及東河景觀盡收眼底。

為使建筑節能高效，且盡可能多地為場地留出公共綠地空間，建筑平面布局緊湊，但剖面上是開放且流動的。在圖書館東入口處，建筑師還設計了一個閱覽花園。花園與低矮的公園辦公亭毗鄰，連接處植以銀杏。

晚間，河濱的獵人角圖書館光彩奪目，與百事可樂廣告牌、廢棄龍門架上的“長島”標志一道，成為這一新興社區空間的燈塔。（王惠 譯）

1 鳥瞰/Aerial view

Located on a prominent site along the East River, against the backdrop of rapidly built skyscraper condominiums, the 2044 m2(22,000-square-foot) Queens Public Library at Hunters Point stands as a public building and public park, bringing community-devoted space to the Long Island City waterfront.

Resisting recent trends of incorporating public libraries and much-needed social space within high-end residential towers, the Hunters Point Library stands independently, rising with a minimal footprint on its 2973 m2(32,000-squarefoot) site to offer maximum surrounding green space to the local community and becoming an integrated part of the vibrant public park that lines the river's edge.

The vertical structure reimagines the traditional library model, providing diversity of spaces from intimate reading areas to active gathering spaces.The building's aluminium-painted concrete shell is not just a fa?ade but a load-bearing structure, which omits curtain walls and columns. Sculpted cuts are carved out of the fa?ade, showing the movement of people within and framing expansive views of the Manhattan skyline.

The programme's separation into children's area, teen area and adult area can be read in the sculpted cuts of the east fa?ade of the building, one fa?ade opening for each area; yet the programmatic divisions are fluid. Inside, warm bamboo creates an inviting social space, open to the community and offering engaging spaces for all ages. Natural light enters through the large windows from all sides,animating the space.

The digital and the book are merged through the bookshelves and adjacent digital workstations that flow upward along a series of open stairs. A groundlevel auditorium under the main section provides public meeting and events space. The stairs switch back from mezzanine to mezzanine, connecting reading areas and concluding in a rooftop reading terrace with views of the city and the river.

While the plan is compact, the building section of the new library is open and flowing to allow for the most energy-efficient design and the greatest amount of public green space on the site. On the east entrance side, the library faces a reading garden bordered by a low park office pavilion with a bosque of ginkgo trees.

At night the glowing presence of the Hunters Point Library along the waterfront joins the Pepsi sign and the "Long Island" sign at the old Gantry to become a beacon for this new community place.

項目信息/Credits and Data

客戶/Client: 皇后區公共圖書館，紐約市設計和建設部/Queens Public Library, New York City Department of Design and Construction

建筑設計/Architects: Steven Holl, Chris McVoy, Olaf Schmidt, Filipe Taboada, Suk Lee, Bell Ying Yi Cai, Rychiee Espinosa, JongSeo Lee, Maki Matsubayashi, Michael Rusch,Dominik Sigg, Yasmin Vobis, Jeanne Wellinger (Steven Holl Architects)

景觀設計/Landscape Architects: Michael Van Valkenburgh and Associates

結構工程/Structural Engineers: Silman

機電工程/MEP Engineers: ICOR Associates

照明設計/Lighting Design: L'Observatoire International綠建顧問/LEED Consultant: ADS Engineers

土木工程/Civil Engineers: Langan Engineering & Environmental Services

消防技術顧問/Fire Technical Consultant: Rolf Jensen & Assoc.成本估算/Cost Estimator: Davis Langdon

規格定制/Speci fications: Construction Speci fications Inc.氣候工程/Climate Engineers: Transsolar

建筑面積/Building Area: 2044 m2(22,000 ft2)

建筑結構/Structure: 現澆混凝土外層，鋼架混凝土地板/Cast in place concrete shell with steel framed floors,concrete on metal deck

施工時間/Construction Period: 2015.05-2019.09

水彩繪制/Watercolours: Courtesy of Steven Holl

攝影/Photos: Iwan Baan

2 外景/Exterior view

3 夜景/Night view

Q: 獵人角社區圖書館不僅僅是圖書館，你們是如何在這個建筑中拓展“圖書館”的概念的？

A: 我們的想法是把建筑的所有功能都壓縮到一個非常簡單的體量里面，把周圍的景觀全部釋放出來，為東邊的住宅區創造一個公共廣場，同時也形成西邊的州立公園龍門廣場的一個端點。所以這是一個關于“壓縮”項目，也是一個關于景觀和公共空間塑造的項目。

項目的場地不是很大，大約3000m2，而建筑面積約為2000m2。對于這個比較小的場地而言，項目的容積率是很大的。但是，通過功能的垂直堆疊和相互交錯，我們能夠盡可能地提供最大的室外公共空間。在建筑內部，不同功能之間雖然相互堆疊、交錯、混合，它們之間有相對明確的分區，同時又能讓人們能夠有所選擇地從一個功能區進入另一個功能區。所以建筑中的功能是流動的，有時逐次排布，有時又相互交錯。

Q: 建筑內部包含了密集的開放和圍合空間，你們是如何處理流線、會議空間、休閑空間和沉思空間的？

A: 這是我們事務所的一個絕妙想法：把交通空間向外推到立面，并據此對立面進行鏤刻。你可以從立面上看到這種動態感。因此，交通空間位于建筑的邊緣，而功能空間被置于中心。斯蒂文·霍爾在方案早期就明確了這樣一個清晰的定義。在他很早的一張草圖中，就把交通空間放在建筑的外圍，從而將樓層的大部分空間留給各種功能活動。因此圖書館中不會出現太多封閉的小空間，大部分空間都是開放的，用于閱讀和學習。圖書館里只有一個禮堂，它比較像一個會議室，位于圖書館成人閱讀區大臺階的最低幾步臺階之下。那就算是整個建筑中唯一一個比較封閉的空間了，但它也是與中庭相連的。禮堂空間的有趣之處在于，它就像是成人閱讀空間的反面，因為它恰好就在樓板之下。可以說它是閱讀空間的“負形”。我覺得這一點非常巧妙。

Q: 這樣一個小尺度的圖書館坐落在巨大尺度的高層公寓之中，建筑和環境的關系是怎樣的？

A: 我覺得霍爾在周圍環境中找到的靈感在于，在被高大的住宅群包圍的環境中，圖書館應該成為一個在公共空間中提供公共功能的范例。我認為圖書館的形式本身就是標志性的。建筑的立面語言及鋁制表皮令它極具標志性，建筑不需要很大也能很容易被看到。標志性建筑不一定要體量很大。另一個有意思的事情是，當你觀察長島一側的東河河岸時，會發現幾個地標。有趣的是，其中一個地標是一個百事可樂的廣告牌，而它正是紐約的象征。那個廣告牌一直在那里，或許我可以查查它立在那里多久了，我想可能已經好幾十年了。那個廣告牌就是一個長島河岸上的另一個重要元素，它并不大，卻極具標志性。

Q: 我們都知道空間性是斯蒂文·霍爾關注的焦點，在這個項目中對空間的實驗性體現在哪里？哪些因素決定了空間的品質？

A: 這類較小的項目讓我們公司，尤其是斯蒂文·霍爾有機會真正設計出空間的品質和體驗。我認為對品質與體驗的考量在這個項目中是至關重要的，因為整個建筑都是關于功能之間的融合，人們在建筑中如何移動、向上行走，建筑與周圍環境的關系，以及建筑與河對岸的曼哈頓“立面”的關系。我們在紐約的辦公室里做了幾個比例模型，來幫助我們理解內部空間的關系，空間之中的流線，以及建筑外立面上對景曼哈頓的幾個開口的幾何形式。這個項目算是一個教科書式的案例，我們可以真正地深入研究所有的細節。

Q: 項目建成后收獲了哪些令你驚訝或印象深刻的評價嗎？使用者的反饋是否達到了你們的預期？

A: 我主要通過媒體，以及我們團隊成員的口中聽到一些外界的評價。我個人的感受是，在進去之前，沒有人真正知道建筑的內部是什么樣的。所有人都從外面看這座建筑，但大家并不知道進去之后是什么感受。光從外面看，很難知道這樣一個看起來十分簡潔的形式的內部竟然包含了非常流動、有趣的空間。所以我覺得很多人進入圖書館，并在里面行走的時候，都會有點“哇”的感覺。這就是人們使用一座建筑的高光點。（母卓爾 譯）

8 水彩/Watercolours

9 水彩/Watercolours

10 水彩/Watercolours

Q: Hunters Point Library is about much more than books. What was your "extended library" concept for the building?

A: The idea was to compress the actual building, all the functions, inside a very simple volume, and free up all the landscape around it in order to provide a public plaza to the residential community to the east, but also providing an end to the Gantry Park of the Garden State Park on the west side. So it's a project about compression. And it's a project about landscape and public space formation.

The site is not very big. It's about 3000 square metres. And the project size is about 2000 square metres. You could say it's a very large FAR for that smaller site. But the idea of stacking the functions together vertically and also interlocking them side by side makes sure that we had the greatest public space formation outside. Now inside the building, having these functions that are stacking,interlocking, and mixing, allowed for both clear separation of functions, but also people to go from one to the other in a way that we can relate one or another. So it's fluid. One function follows or falls into the other function.

Q: The inner building contains a dense program of open spaces and niches. How did you deal with allowing both for circulation, meetings, retreat and contemplation?

A: That was a brilliant design of our office in a way that pushed the circulation towards the fa?ade.That's how the fa?ade is sort of carved. You see the movement of it. So the circulation is on the edges,and the programme functions are in the centre. So that was a very clear definition that Steven decided from very early on. His one of the first sketches wanted to put the circulation on the outer side of the building, freeing out the entire floor plate mostly for these spaces to work together. Now there are not too many small, enclosed spaces. Most of them are open spaces for reading and for study. There's only one auditorium which is sort of a meeting room auditorium which actually happens underneath one of the very first steps of the adults' section of the library. So that is the only space that is somewhat enclosed, but it's also connected to the atrium. The interesting thing about that space is that it's sort of the negative of the adults' reading area because it happens right under the slab. It's a counter-volume of the space. It's pretty clever I thought.

Q: The small scale of the library stands out in the middle of giant high-rises. How does the architecture relate to the context?

A: I think Steven found inspiration in the context by being an example of public function in a public space against these large, tall residential communities.And I think the form itself is so iconic. The fa?ade language, the silver coating of it is so iconic that you don't need to be large to be seen. You don't need to be large to be iconic. The interesting thing also,if you look at that side of the East River, along the Long Island City, there are a few landmarks there. I mean you may find it funny, but there's a Pepsi Cola sign which is emblematic of New York. It's always been there. I can probably research how long it's been there. It's been there for decades. This became sort of another element of the coast of Long Island City that became very emblematic without being very large.

Q: As known, spatiality is usually what Mr. Steven Holl concerns the most. In this project, how will you de fine its experiment of space? What plays the important role in maintaining the spatial quality?

A: These smaller projects afford us as a firm and Steven in particular the opportunity to really design the quality and the experience of having the space.I think those parameters are critical in this project because all of it is about how functions merge from one to the other, how you move around the building,up in the building, how you relate to the immediate landscape, but also how you relate to the fa?ade,which is Manhattan across the river. There were several scale models that we built in our New York office. To understand the relationship of interior spaces, the circulation within the space itself, but also the geometry of the fa?ade openings that we know were related to Manhattan. That was sort of the textbook example of a project in which we can really get in there and do all the details.

Q: After its completion, is there any comment you received makes you feel surprised or impressive?Does users' feedback meet your expectation?

A: I've heard through the media, and comments from our team members in New York. My personal impression was that nobody really knew what happened inside the building. Everybody saw the building from outside, but nobody knew what it meant to be inside. And how a seemingly simple form can hold very fluid, interesting spaces inside.So I think a lot of people are sort of "Wow" when they get inside and they start moving around the building. That's been the highlight of people using it now.

11 內景/Interior view

評委評語

謝爾蓋·卓班：這座位于紐約皇后區的公共圖書館，設有兒童、青少年和成人閱讀區，一個會議室和一個露天劇場。圖書館坐落在高端住宅塔樓中間，創造了一個小尺度的雕塑般的構筑物，與大尺度的城市之間形成美學與社會的反差。在其內部，圖書館緊密地排布著明亮的開放空間以及用于沉思的壁龕。室外，圖書館周圍出現了一個社區的聚會場所。獵人角社區圖書館不僅作為對照為天際線增添了另一個維度和新的亮點，也為公共生活增添了重要的鄰里功能。（龐凌波 譯）

李存東：這是一個小型社區圖書館，但它在城市中扮演了很重要的角色。內部交通組織沿外墻展開，使空間具有流動性和開放性，也使內向的建筑功能具有了外向的立面氣質，為小型建筑成為城市地標提供了可能性。集中緊湊的體量將有限的室外空間最大可能貢獻給社區，反映出對周邊景觀和市民活動的關注。從城市層面看，這座小建筑具有獨特的立面開口和白色形態，在高樓林立的環境中具有非常清晰的辨識度，對濱河公園乃至整體城市風貌都具有十分積極的意義。

12 內部日景/Interior day views

13 內部日景/Interior day views

14 內景示意/Watercolour of interior view

15 廣場/Plaza

Jury Statement

Sergei Tchoban: This public library in Queens, New York, features areas for children, teens and adults,a conference room and an outdoor amphitheatre.Set in the middle of high-end residential towers, the library creates a small-scale sculptural structure as an aesthetic and social counterpoint to the largescale city. Inside, the library is densely arranged with bright open spaces as well as niches for contemplation.Outside, around the library a meeting place for the community has emerged. Hunters Point Library adds not only another dimensionality and a new highlight as a contrast to the skyline, but also an important neighbourhood function for public life.

LI Cundong: Although it is a small community library, it plays a very important role in the city. The internal circulation unfolds along the fa?ade, not only giving the space mobility and openness, but also giving the inward-looking function an outwardlooking fa?ade, making the small building possible to become a landmark of the city. The intensive and compact volume contributes the maximum possible amount of outdoor space to the community, re flecting a concern for the surrounding landscape and people's activity. On an urban level, the small building with its distinctive fa?ade openings and white form is very recognisable in its high-rise surroundings and has a very positive impact on the riverfront park and the overall cityscape. (Translated by PANG Lingbo)