理查德·林德纳田径中心,辛辛那提,美国

Richard E. Lindner Athletics Centre,Cincinnati,USA,2006

2001年,辛辛那提大学委托伯纳德·屈米建筑事务所设计一个新的校队田径中心。大学要求将这个中心作为田径训练、管理、运动医学和学术活动的中心,放在校园未被开发的地段。我们选择了一种针对地段的回旋镖形概念,称之为＂文脉自由形＂。我们还要跨过建筑下方的重要区域。通过与结构工程师合作,我们决定将建筑围护结构做成一种刚性桁架。这样不仅满足了跨越下方的条件,而且这种结构上的挑战将成为项目的一张名片。这种处理场地和策划的手法既合理又有策略。屈米的草图是一种快速的抽象。

In 2001 the University of Cincinnati approached Bernard Tschumi Architects with a commission for a new hub for varsity athletics. The client indicated that the centre, which was intended as an epicentre for athletics training, administration, sports medicine, and academic activities, was to be located on a site filled with extreme constraints. We selected a site-reflective, boomerang-shaped concept that we called a ＂contextual free- form＂. We needed to span over the critical areas located below the building. Working with our structural engineers, we thought of making a stiff truss out of the building envelope. Not only did it allow us to bridge the conditions below.