A8设计中心图书馆占地面积950平方米，位于A8设计中心滨水层。它致力于打造一个专业的泛设计类图书馆，服务于广大设计师、从业者、学生群体及设计爱好者。除"设计师为A8推荐的8本书"这一板块外，A8设计中心启动针对全球优秀设计图书馆的空间及内容的研究，由设计师进行推荐，A8设计中心深入挖掘并呈现。

The A8 Design Center Library covers an area of 950 m2 and is located on the waterfront of A8 Design Center. It is committed to creating a professional design library to serve designers, practitioners, student groups and design enthusiasts. In addition to the section of "8 books recommended by designers for A8", A8 Design Center initiated research on the space and content of global excellent design libraries, recommended by designers, and A8 Design Center researches and presents them in depth.

理想图书馆系列研究 01

Ideal Library Series Research 01

推荐人：赵扬

Recommender: Zhao Yang

A8设计中心：理想的设计图书馆是怎样的？可否推荐一个您理想的图书馆给A8设计中心？这个图书馆打动到您的地方是哪里？

赵扬：理想的设计图书馆应该是致力于启迪心灵的图书馆。设计类图书不用求全，应该找世界上最有独特性的设计师，每人推荐一百册影响他/她设计观和方法形成的书，这些书当然不限于设计类。这一百本书形成一个立体的小宇宙，让对设计的智慧真正感兴趣的人有机会向深处探寻。

关于理想的图书馆，我会推荐路易康的艾克斯特图书馆。这个图书馆的空间可以让人凝神静气，一位真正的建筑求道者真诚的创作，它凝聚了人类精神和灵性高维状态，这样的空间可以激荡甚至启发低维心智。当然不要忘了艾克斯特是被森林环抱的，大自然的气场对于启迪心智非常关键。

A8 Design Center: What is the ideal design library? Can you recommend a library to A8 Design Center? Where did this library impress you?

Zhao Yang: The ideal design library should be a library dedicated to enlightening the soul. Design books do not need to be complete. Instead, you should look for 100 books recommended by the most unique designers in the world that influence their design concepts and methods. Of course, these books are not limited to design. These one hundred books form a three-dimensional small universe, allowing those who are really interested in the wisdom of design to have the opportunity to explore the depths.

Regarding the ideal library, I would recommend Louis Kahn’s Exeter Library. The space of this library can make people contemplate. The sincere creation of a true architectural seeker, it condenses the human spirit and the high-dimensional state of spirituality. Such a space can stir and even inspire the low-dimensional mind. Of course, don't forget that Exter is surrounded by forests. The aura of nature is very important to enlighten the mind.

关于埃克斯特图书馆

About Exeter Library

"The quality of a library, by inspiring a superior faculty and attracting superior students, determines the effectiveness of a school. No longer a mere depository of books and magazines, the modern library becomes a laboratory for research and experimentation, a quiet retreat for study, reading and reflection, the intellectual center of the community.… Fulfilling needs of a school expected eventually to number one thousand students, unpretentious, though in a handsome, inviting contemporary style, such a library would affirm the regard at the Academy for the work of the mind and the hands of man.”—— Louis Kahn

1. 基本信息 

Basic Information

建筑师：路易斯·康

地点：美国新罕布什尔州埃克斯特

主题：现代主义，原始形状，空隙，混凝土，砖

类型：图书馆

面积：12,300平方米

项目年份：1965-1972

层数：9层

Architects: Louis Kahn

Location: Exeter, New Hampshire, United States

Topics: Modernism, Primitive Shapes, Voids, Concrete,  Brick

Type: Library

Area: 12,300 m2

Project Year: 1965-1972

Number of floors: 9 floors

2. 建筑总述 

Architecture overview

“从设计过程的一开始，康就将这三种类型的空间想象成是三栋由不同材料和不同比例建造的建筑物–建筑物内建筑物。– Robert McCarter

“From the very beginning of the design process, Kahn conceived of the three types of spaces as if they were three buildings constructed of different materials and of different scales – buildings-within-buildings.”– Robert McCarter

康用三个同心的方形环构造图书馆。外圈由承重砖制成，包括所有四个外墙和内部的图书馆储物柜办公桌。中间环由钢筋混凝土制成，可容纳沉重的书架。内环是一个戏剧性的中庭，其墙壁上有巨大的圆形开口，露出了几层书架。图书馆几乎是立方体的形状：其四个侧面的每一侧均为111英尺（33 m）宽，80英尺（24 m） 高。它建在三个同心区域（康称为“甜甜圈”）。外部装有阅读器，由砖制成。中间区域是沉重的书架，由钢筋混凝土制成。内部区域是一个中庭。

Kahn structured the library in three concentric square rings. The outer ring, which is built of load-bearing brick, includes all four exterior walls and the library carrel desks immediately inside them. The middle ring, which is built of reinforced concrete, holds the heavy book stacks. The inner ring is a dramatic atrium with enormous circular openings in its walls that reveal several floors of book stacks.The library has an almost cubical shape: each of its four sides is 111 feet (33 m) wide and 80 feet (24 m) tall. It is constructed in three concentric areas (which Kahn called “doughnuts”). The outer area, which houses the reading carrels, is made of brick. The middle area, which contains the heavy book stacks, is made of reinforced concrete. The inner area is an atrium.

尽管路易斯·康偏爱简单的材料，例如砖和混凝土，但他通过新的方式使用了它们。他最喜欢的一句话是：“我问砖头，'你喜欢什么，砖头？' 砖头说：“我喜欢拱门。”除了使用这些材料之外，卡恩还以自然光的使用而闻名。像他其他后来的作品一样，埃克斯特的新图书馆充满了光线，光线会根据一天中的时间，季节和天气而变化。他认为重点不应放在房屋书籍上，而应放在房屋读者使用书本上。因此，希望找到一种鼓励并确保阅读和学习乐趣的环境。

While Louis Kahn favored simple materials such as brick and concrete, he used them in new ways. One of his favorite sayings was, "I asked the brick, 'What do you like, brick?' And brick said, 'I like an arch.'" In addition to his use of these materials, Kahn is known for his use of natural light. The new library at Exeter, like his other later works, is suffused with light, which changes the character of its spaces depending on time of day, season, and weather. He believes that the emphasis should not be on housing books but on housing readers using books. It is therefore desirable to seek an environment that would encourage and insure the pleasure of reading and study."

3. 平面 

Floorplan

图书馆九层的布局如下所示。这些指南旨在帮助学院社区以及外部访问者在图书馆内查找资源。

The layouts of the Library's nine floors are shown below. These guides are intended to assist the Academy community, as well as outside visitors, in locating resources within the Library.

4. 使用模式和内容 

Usage pattern and content

目前，图书馆提供了260,000册印刷和电子版的访问权限。出版物分布在9层中，货架容量为25万册。位于四楼的两个研讨室可供上课和开会。有210个阅读桌，以及大量阅读室和长桌，学生可以在此共同学习和工作。图书馆的座位量可容纳该学院近一半的学生。

At present, the Library provides access to 260,000 print and electronic volumes.  The print volumes are housed on nine levels with a shelf capacity of 250,000 volumes. Two seminar rooms on the fourth floor are available for classes and meetings. There are 210 study carrels, as well as numerous reading lounges and long tables at which students can work together. The seating capacity of the Library can accommodate nearly half the student population of the Academy.

主层上的参考馆藏有4,000多册。图书馆在47个数据库中订购了335种印刷杂志，27,700种电子期刊，并保存了10,000册装订的期刊。此外，图书馆还收藏了大量缩微胶卷和缩微胶片。大约8500册与一般的循环馆藏分开，位于四楼的较小馆藏中，其中包括有超过4,500件物品的校友/馆藏。诸如13至16世纪的照明手稿叶子，16世纪的木版画，原始船的原木以及早期的英国和美国报纸之类可用于学术研究的珍贵物品，并不时在特殊展览中展出。图书馆的Ottaway/Bown Adams无声电影图书馆是在美国，英国，法国，德国和俄罗斯制作的300多部电影的集合。此外，还有许多在线数据库可以访问世界各地的期刊，杂志和报纸文章。但是，如果图书馆中找不到您要查找的书籍或出版物，则可以要求图书馆为一般收藏而购买。

The reference collection on the main floor contains more than 4,000 volumes. The Library subscribes to 335 print magazines,  27,700 electronic journals in 47 databases, and maintains 10,000 volumes of bound periodicals. In addition, the Library has an extensive collection of microfilm and microfiche. Some 8,500 volumes are separated from the general circulating collection in smaller collections on the fourth floor, including the alumni collection with more than 4,500 items. Such treasures as leaves from 13th- to 16th-century illuminated manuscripts, 16th-century wood engravings, original ships' logs, and early British and American newspapers are available for scholarly research and are displayed from time to time in special exhibits. The Library's Ottaway/Bown Adams Silent Film Library is a collection of more than 300 films produced in the United States, England, France, Germany and Russia. In addition, there are numerous online databases that provide access to journals, magazines, and newspaper articles from around the world. However, if a book or publication for which you are looking is not available in the library, you may ask the Library to acquire it for the general collection.

5. 书籍分类 

Book classification

学科：会计，动物行为，人类学，人类学，阿拉伯和伊斯兰研究，考古学，艺术史和视觉文化，生物科学，商业，化学，经典和古代历史，计算机科学，康沃尔/凯尔特研究，犯罪学，戏剧，经济学，教育 ，工程，英语，环境研究，欧洲研究，电影研究，金融，食品研究，地理，地质，历史，人文科学，管理，数学，医学影像，医学，医学，中东研究，采矿和矿物工程，现代 语言，音乐，自然科学，神经科学，护理，营养，药学，哲学，物理与天文学，政治与国际关系，心理学，可再生能源，安全研究，社会学，体育科学，神学，旅游管理

Subjects: Accountancy, Animal Behaviour, Anthropology, Anthrozoology, Arab and Islamic Studies, Archaeology, Art History and Visual Culture, Biosciences, Business, Chemistry, Classics and Ancient History, Computer Science, Cornish/Celtic studies, Criminology, Drama, Economics, Education, Engineering, English, Environmental Studies, European Studies, Film Studies, Finance, Food Studies, Geography, Geology, History, Liberal Arts, Management, Mathematics, Medical Imaging, Medical Sciences, Medicine, Middle East Studies, Mining and Minerals Engineering, Modern Languages, Music, Natural Sciences, Neuroscience, Nursing, Nutrition, Pharmacy, Philosophy, Physics and Astronomy, Politics and International Relations, Psychology, Renewable Energy, Security Studies, Sociology, Sports Science, Theology, Tourism Management

6. 关于推荐人

About the Recommender

赵扬

Zhao Yang

1980年4月出生于重庆市。2005年获清华大学建筑学硕士学位。2007年在建筑师张轲的支持下，在北京创立标准营造-赵扬工作室。2010年获WA中国建筑奖优胜奖。同年，赵扬赴哈佛大学设计研究生院学习，并于2012年获哈佛大学建筑学硕士学位，并获选哈佛大学优秀毕业生。归国后，赵扬将工作室迁往云南大理，探索建筑实践在转型期的中国乡村的可能性，并在以“喜洲竹庵”、“柴米多农场餐厅和生活市集”为代表的一系列公共和私人项目的设计中，探索建筑学对场所特质和生活方式的回归。2012年，赵扬获选“劳力士艺术导师计划”，在普利茨克奖得主，日本著名建筑师妹岛和世的指导下，完成日本气仙沼市“共有之家”建筑项目。

赵扬应邀在清华大学、同济大学、香港中文大学、日本东北大学、马来西亚建筑师学会、斯里兰卡杰弗里 • 巴瓦基金会举办学术讲座，并于2019年被聘为清华大学建筑学院设计导师。赵扬建筑工作室于2014年受邀参加威尼斯建筑双年展“应变 • 中国的建筑和变化”平行 展;2015 年 10 月受邀参加东京“间”画廊“来自亚洲的日常”展。工作室作品“柴米多农场餐厅和生活市集”获选参加 2018 年威尼斯建筑中国馆主题展。赵扬的作品和访谈也曾广泛发表于国内外著名期刊。

Zhao Yang was born in Chongqing in April 1980. He received his Master's degree in architecture from Tsinghua University in 2005. In 2007, with the support of architect Zhang Ke, Zhao Yang studio was founded in Beijing. In 2010, he won the WA China Architecture Award. In the same year, Zhao Yang went to Harvard Graduate School of Design to study. In 2012, he received the Master of Architecture degree from Harvard University and was selected as the Outstanding Graduate of Harvard University. After returning to China, Zhao Yang moved his studio to Dali, Yunnan province, to explore the possibilities of architectural practice in the Chinese countryside during the transition period, and to explore the return of architecture to site characteristics and lifestyle in the design of a series of public and private projects represented by "Xizhou Bamboo Nunn" and "Chaimiduo Farm Restaurant and Living Market". In 2012, Zhao Yang was selected as a Member of the Rolex Art Mentor Program and completed the "Common House" project in Kesennuma, Japan, under the guidance of Renowned Japanese architect Kazuyo Sejima, who won the Pritzker Prize.

Zhao Yang was invited to give academic lectures in Tsinghua University, Tongji University, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Tohoku University, Malaysia Institute of Architects, Sri Lanka Geoffrey Bawa Foundation, and was hired as design tutor of School of Architecture, Tsinghua University in 2019. Zhao Yang Architecture Studio was invited to participate in Venice Architecture Biennale in 2014. In October 2015, he was invited to participate in the "Everyday From Asia" exhibition of The "Tama" Gallery in Tokyo. The studio's work "Chaimido Farm Restaurant and Living Market" was selected for the 2018 China Pavilion of Architecture exhibition in Venice. Zhao Yang's works and interviews have also been widely published in famous journals at home and abroad.