Grafton Architects新作：伦敦政经学院马歇尔大楼

编译：袁蓓祺 | 校对：袁蓓祺 | 2023.06.11 22:35

设计单位 Grafton Architects

项目地点 英国伦敦

建成时间 2022年

面积 18,000平方米

马歇尔大楼是伦敦政治经济学院（LSE）的一个重要的新项目，为该大学的伦敦市中心校区新添了一座建筑物，位于林肯公会广场上。

The Marshall Building is a major new development for the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), establishing a new presence for the university on Lincoln's Inn Fields as part of their campus in the heart of London.

建筑坐落在两种不同氛围的城市环境的交界处，其北面是具有仪式感的规则广场，南面则是更错综复杂的城市肌理。建筑形态为适应这种环境，一方面与林肯公会广场形式表达统一，另一方面顺应场地的几何形状和南面更零散的街道模式，进行了调整。

Situated on the 'shoreline' between the formal setting of the fields to the north and a more intricate urban grain to the south, the building form adjusts to this context, maintaining a unified expression onto Lincoln’s Inn Fields while adapting to the geometry of the site and the more fractured street pattern to the south.

建筑规模约为18,000平方米，容纳了演讲厅、非正式学习空间、学术办公室、音乐排练和艺术设施、壁球场和一个20×35米的体育大厅。

At approximately 18,000m2 the building houses lecture theatres, informal study spaces, academic offices, music rehearsal and arts facilities, squash courts and a 20m×35m sports hall.

为了适应这一系列不同用途需要，团队创造性地采用了一种旋转结构，使得跨度从上层至下层不断增加。这使得柱子和梁“树状”编织在一起，如“枝条”的结构越往下越向外延展，呈对角线式排布，将荷载向下传递至地面。

To accommodate this range of uses a rotating structure was developed to creatively address the need to transfer from the smaller spans at the upper levels, to the ever increasing spans required at ground and lower ground levels. This led to a weave of ‘tree like’ columns and beams which direct the forces of gravity to the ground, through the increasing outward spread of tapered diagonal ‘branches’.

凭借这个结构的支撑，四个不同的世界被垂直地堆叠起来，从地面以下直至半空中。体育场地、市民空间、教学空间、研究场所，在体积和结构上都是相互交织的。这是城市的一个缩影，多种用途功能共同形成了一个能够滋养大学生活的、丰富多彩的环境。

Within this structure, four different worlds are stacked vertically, rising from below ground to the sky. The world of sport, civic space, teaching, research, are all volumetrically and structurally interwoven. This is a microcosm of the city, with a multiplicity of uses forming a rich and nourishing environment for university life.