炎热的气候，清凉的内心——印度Thapar大学学习实验室

Thapar University Learning Laboratory / Mccullough Mulvin Architects + Designplus Associates Services由专筑网小R编译来自建筑事务所的描述：学习实验室是新型的会议空间，是教育的引擎，是学生的城市，是交流的起点，它结合了永恒的形式，构成复杂的空间，这座建筑包含有图书馆、演说大厅、科学设施，每个部分都有着红色的高大Agra石材体量，上方是白色的大理石细部，立面则是如同传统Jaali表皮般的石材表面。Text description provided by the architects. The Learning Laboratory is a new type of meeting space, an engine for education, a city for students, a destination for conversation; it mediates timeless form and offers complex spatial adventures. The building comprises a library, lecture theatres and a science faculty, each in a tall red Agra stone volume, with white marble detail, the facades mediated using louvred stone screens like traditional Jaali screens.

130m x 130m的裙房贯穿其中，就如同气候的调节器，在10米高空中，两侧是巨大的坡道，这也成为了人行道路的自然延伸，在下方，各个部分都位于交错的平面当中，它们好像在蔓延，学生们会在喷泉周围聚集，上方是高大的混凝土结构，在一年中最炎热的时候，水流能够让空气冷却。A 130m x 130m podium structure runs between and acts as climate modifier. 10m in the air, with giant ramps at either end, it is a natural extension of the pedestrian route. Below, everything is inhabited within a forked plan, like spreading water; students congregate in the heat of the day around fountains, in the cool shade of a tall concrete structure. The water cools the air and moves it to allow for a reduction in temperature at the hottest times of the year.

这三座建筑的中庭高度为30米，有着不同的特征，图书馆就如同一个锥形空间，科学大楼则是一个城市广场，演说大厅便盘旋在景观的上方，这三个部分都有着魔幻的楼梯，光线通过植物覆盖的屋面而来到地面层，再由此而进入裙楼的下方。The three buildings have lofty 30m atrium spaces of quite different character - in the library a zip-like tapering void, the science building a shaped city square, the lecture theatres hovering over a built landscape; all three are crossed by dramatic staircases; light spills from tree-filled roofs to the ground below and into the busy under-podium world.

这座建筑师一系列不同尺度的混凝土作品，巨大的柱子网格结合人字形拱支撑着裙房，图书馆中的柱子相互倾斜支撑，演说大楼里有6个大厅彼此背对，通过巨大的序列而让楼层平面更加自由，从而构成具有舞蹈感的楼梯。The structure is concrete at a series of scales: a grid of giant columns holds the podium, with herringbone soffits. Raked columns in the library touch as they meet. The lecture building has 6 theatres suspended back to back, 3 over 3, from a giant order that frees up the floor plans and forms a datum for the dancing staircases.

建筑为立体的几何形式，激发了自然地质的理念，延伸自然形态，构成岩石与山谷，这样的现代化概念来源于建筑的场所精神，呼应了印度的传统建筑，它以强烈的可持续性以及环境问题为基础，其建造方式简单，应用当地的工人和材料，吸收部分太阳能，结合了水池的裙房构成了当地的微气候群体，自然从树木中穿过，屋面上种植了全新的景观植物，光线也能够从中过滤。The architecture is of solid geometric forms, evocative of natural geography - extending nature to form rocky heights and shaded valleys. This is a contemporary concept founded on a sense of place, sensible to the traditions of Indian architecture. It is founded on strong sustainability and environmental concerns in a monsoon climate; it is built simply, using local labor and materials; the provision of cooling and shade limit solar gain, the podium with pools makes a local microclimate; Nature runs through it, from the existing trees retained, to the new landscape planted on the roofs through which light is filtered.