塞勒姆公共图书馆翻新/黑客建筑师

塞勒姆公共图书馆翻新/黑客建筑师
Salem Public Library Renovation / Hacker Architects

结构与功能的升级：塞勒姆公共图书馆翻新项目展现了卓越的建筑智慧。项目对1970年建成的混凝土结构进行了地震翻修、无障碍改善和生命安全更新，使其结构弹性和建筑系统达到现代标准。这一改造不仅提升了建筑的安全性，还解决了老旧建筑和过时空间所带来的一系列挑战，为图书馆的长期稳定运营奠定了坚实基础，体现了对建筑全生命周期的深度考量。

空间与社区的融合：设计巧妙地将日光引入大型堡垒式建筑的核心，将原本内向的野兽派建筑转变为明亮、宽敞的空间，极大地增强了建筑的开放性和吸引力。新窗户和重新设计的入口加强了室内外的联系，而宽敞的中心空间则实现了楼层间的垂直互动。在有限的预算下，设计团队通过实用主义的视角，使每一项设计选择都同时服务于地震和生命安全提升以及社区导向的愿景，以顾客和员工的体验为核心，真正实现了建筑与社区的深度融合。

功能与体验的重塑：项目重新构想了不同功能空间之间的关系，巧妙地整合了员工空间与公共空间，优化了服务于不同年龄段的图书馆部门布局。安静区、嘈杂区和交通繁忙区的合理划分，为读者提供了更加舒适和高效的阅读环境。特别是将青年服务搬迁到顶层，不仅实现了资源共享和运营优化，还为青少年和儿童提供了充满活力的新空间。此外，创客空间、社区室等多功能区域的设置，进一步丰富了图书馆的功能，使其成为社区学习和交流的重要场所。

建筑师提供的文字描述塞勒姆公共图书馆位于市中心，将进行翻修，使其结构弹性和建筑系统达到现代标准。这座96000平方英尺的混凝土结构建于1970年，并于1990年进行了扩建。当地震翻修、无障碍改善和生命安全更新的资金到位时，该市和图书馆看到了一个难得的机会，可以解决工作人员和图书馆读者在老旧的混凝土建筑和过时的空间中遇到的一些额外挑战。
Text description provided by the architects. The Salem Public Library's downtown location was due for a renovation to bring its structural resilience and building systems up to modern standards. The 96,000-square-foot concrete structure was built in 1970 and underwent an expansion in 1990. When funding came through for seismic renovation, accessibility improvements, and life-safety updates, the city and library saw a rare chance to address some of the additional challenges encountered by staff and library patrons in their aging concrete building and outdated spaces.

整合和资源设计-通过与图书馆团队的深入合作，建立了一个愿景，即创造一个热情、安全和灵活的空间，同时丰富人们与社区之间的联系。该设计将日光引入这座大型堡垒式建筑的核心，将一座面向内的野兽派时代建筑改造成一个明亮、宽敞的空间，吸引社区进入。新窗户和重新设计的入口在内外之间建立了联系，宽敞的中心空间在楼层之间建立了垂直联系。由于实用预算几乎没有回旋余地，图书馆的设计团队需要创造性地寻找方法，使每一美元都能发挥双重作用。设计的每个方面都通过一个实用的视角进行过滤，即每个选择如何有助于提高地震和生命安全，同时提供一个以社区为导向的愿景，并以顾客和员工的体验为中心。
Design for Integration and Resources - Through a deep partnership with the library team, a vision was established to create a space that is welcoming, safe, and flexible while enriching a connection between people and their community. The design brings daylight into the core of the large, fortress-like building, transforming an inward-facing brutalist-era building into a bright, voluminous space that invites the community in. New windows and redesigned entrances create connections between the outside and in, and the voluminous central space creates vertical connections between floors. With almost no wiggle room in a utilitarian budget, the design team for the library needed to get creative finding ways to make every dollar spent do double duty. Each aspect of the design is filtered through a practical lens of how each choice can contribute to improved seismic and life safety while also delivering a vision that is community-oriented and centers the experience of patrons and staff.

变革设计——为了为读者创造更愉快、更有凝聚力的图书馆体验，该设计重新构想了具有不同功能的不同空间之间的关系——员工空间与公共空间、服务于不同年龄段的图书馆部门的需求、安静区、嘈杂区和交通繁忙区。图书馆工作人员和后台空间现在整合在较低的楼层，以提高效率和功能。活跃的公共空间主要位于上两层。以前被几层楼隔开的青年服务现在搬迁到顶层，以实现更大的资源共享，改善运营和藏品清晰度，其中包括为青少年场景和儿童区提供充满活力的新空间，探索室已搬迁到儿童区。较低层的广场通往一个活跃、繁华的主入口，毗邻一个用于实践学习、会议和会议的创客空间，以及一个可以在正常图书馆工作时间后举办大型活动的社区室。
Design for Change - To create a more pleasant, cohesive library experience for patrons, the design reimagines how different spaces with different functions relate to one another – staff spaces vs. public spaces, the needs of library sections serving different age groups, quiet zones, noisy zones, and high-traffic areas. Library staff and back-of-house spaces are now consolidated on the lower floor for greater efficiency and functionality. Active public spaces are found primarily on the upper two levels. The youth services previously separated by several floors now relocated to the top level to allow for greater sharing of resources as well as improved operations and clarity of collections, which includes vibrant new spaces for the Teen Scene and Children's areas, and the Discovery Room has been relocated to Children's. The lower level plaza opens up to an active, bustling main entrance, adjacent to a maker space for hands-on learning, meeting and conference space, and a community room that can accommodate larger events after regular library hours.