如果你没有听说过Skidmore, Owings 和 Merrill，那么也许是你没有上过建筑历史课。1930年，他们在国际式时代就很活跃，他们也在高层结构方面非常专业。他们塑造了美国大多数城市中心 的面貌，世界很多地方都有他们的设计项目，其中之一是位于迪拜的世界最高的建筑。SOM是世界上最大的建筑设计公司之一。 If you haven′t heard about Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, maybe you didn′t take and Architecture History class, as they played an active role on the International Style during the 1930s. They also developed an expertise in high rise towers and structural engineering, shaping the downtown of the most important cities in the United States - and the rest of the world. As of now SOM is one of the largest offices in the world, with on-going projects such as the Burj Dubai, actually the tallest building in the world. But SOM is not just high rise buildings. They have developed award winning sustainable master plans, interiors, structures, and other types of buildings. SOM不只是做高建筑，他们对总体规划、室内设计、结构和其它类型的建筑也很在行。 Now we present you The Cathedral of Christ the Light in Oakland, CA, an amazing structure with a wooden/glass skin that creates an interior full of light. One of my favorite buildings of the year, already awarded with an AIA Honor Award for Architecture. 今天介绍他们设计的位于加利福利亚/奥克兰的基督之光教堂——惊人的结构，木头和玻璃表皮，室内明亮的建筑物。本年度我最喜欢的建筑，它已经获得了AIA的荣誉奖。 We′d like to thank SOM San Francisco for providing us all the information of this new project. 我们感谢SOM三藩市分部给我们提供了这个新项目的资料。 Architects: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP Location: Oakland, California, USA Design Team: Craig Hartman, FAIA, Design Partner / Gene Schnair, FAIA, Managing Partner / Keith Boswell, AIA, Technical Director / Raymond Kuca, AIA, Project Manager / Patrick Daly, AIA, Senior Design Architect / Eric Keune, AIA / Lisa Gayle Finster, AIA / Christopher Kimball / Jane Lee / Christina Kyrillou / Elizabeth Valadez / Denise Hall Montgomery / Mariah Neilson / Peter Jackson / Surjanto / Gary Rohrbacher / Ayumi Sugiyama / Liang Wu / Katie Motchen / Matthew Tierney / Henry Vlanin Structural Engineering: Mark Sarkisian, PE, SE, Structural Engineering Director / Peter Lee, PE, SE, Senior Structural Engineer / Eric Long, PE, Senior Structural Engineer / Aaron Mazeika, PE, AP / William Bond / Ernest Vayl / Feliciano Racines / Jean-Pierre Michel Chakar / Lindsay Hu / Rupa Garai / Sarah Diegnan Interior Design: Tamara Dinsmore, Chanda Capelli, Susanne LeBlanc, Carmen Carrasco, David Lou General Contractor: Webcor Builders Design start: 2002 Construction Complete: 2008 Site Area: 2.50 acres Constructed Area: 20,996 sqm Photographs: César Rubio, Timothy Hursley, John Blaustein   Architect′s description: The Cathedral of Christ the Light provides a sanctuary in the broadest sense of the word. Located in downtown Oakland, this house of worship ofers a sense of solace, spiritual renewal, and respite from the secular world. The Cathedral employs a non-linear approach to honor the church’s 2,000-year history without forcing a specifc point of view. By stripping away received iconography, the design positions symbolic meaning within contemporary culture. The approachable result remains open to the region’s ever-changing multi-cultural makeup and to the future. 建筑师描述： 位于奥克兰的基督之光教堂是一个神圣的场所，它是平凡的世界中的一个独特、精神获得新生之所。 基督之光教堂 为了表示对2000年教会的历史的敬意，建筑采用了非直线的外观，不只是特定的视点才能取得好的外观效果。设计没有采用具体宗教图像，而是用当代文化的手法获得象征意义。它以开放的姿态面对这一地区的不断变化的多元文化格局和未来。     As its name suggests, the Cathedral draws on the tradition of light as a sacred phenomenon. Through its poetic introduction, indirect daylight ennobles modest materials-primarily wood, glass, and concrete. With the exception of evening activities, the Cathedral is lit entirely by daylight to create an extraordinary level of luminosity. The lightest ecological footprint was always a core design objective. Through the highly innovative use of renewable materials, the building minimizes the use of energy and natural resources.   顾名思义，建筑吸取了传统，把光作为一个带来神圣感的设计要素。间接光线使得平凡的主要材料：木材，玻璃，水泥产生诗歌一般效果。在白天和偶尔的晚上活动中，教堂由光线产生很好的效果。 最好的生态节能效果也是核心的设计目标。 高度创新的使用可再生材料，建筑减少能源和自然资源消耗。     The structure’s concrete makes use of fy ash and slag, a waste byproduct of coal combustion and steel production, to reduce the amount of cement, a resource-consuming material. An advanced version of the ancient Roman technique of thermal inertia maintains the interior climate with mass and radiant heat. Douglas fr, obtained through sustainably harvesting processes, has proven to be aesthetically pleasing, economically sound, and structurally forgiving-the wood’s surfaces add warmth while its elasticity allows for the bending and returning of shape during seismic activity. Through the use of advanced seismic techniques, including base isolation, the structure will withstand another 1,000-year earthquake. The Cathedral of Christ the Light, a building for the ages, will endure for centuries rather than decades. Materials 结构的混凝土使用灰渣、煤炭燃烧的副产品、钢铁生产过程中产生的渣，以减少水泥和资源的消耗。建筑采用先进的热惯性技术（与古罗马技术相同的原理）保持室内气候质量和辐射热。木材，如果通过可持续采伐过程（就是可持续的）。它美观，经济合理。通过给木材的表面加热处理，而增加其弹性，使其形状可弯曲，在压力去除后，可复原。通过使用先进的结构技术，包括基础隔震结构，建筑物能承受1000年一遇的地震。可耸立数百年。 材料 Exterior Wall Systems: Glass, Precast Concrete Interior: Precast Concrete, Wood Structural description 外墙：玻璃，预应力混凝土 内部：预应力混凝土，木材 结构 ?   The main Cathedral superstructure consists of a hybrid structural system of reinforced concrete, pre-fabricated glued laminated wood timber members, high-strength structural steel rods paired with glued laminated wood compression struts, and a steel friction-pendulum seismic base isolation system. The superstructure is supported atop an eighteen-foot-high mausoleum substructure of reinforced concrete extending to a reinforced concrete mat foundation. 建筑主要结构包括混合结构体系的钢筋混凝土，预制胶合木材，高强度结构钢搭配胶合木材压缩支柱，主要结构上18英尺的子结构是独立的避震结构。 Omega Window     The image of Jesus is 58 feet high. There are over 94,000 perforations that render the image. Chapels   58英尺的基督像 ?大约9万4千个小孔来显示基督像。 祈祷室       Extra Credits Owner: Catholic Diocese of Oakland Projects representatives: Bishop Allen H. Vigneron, Provost Father Paul Minnihan, Project Director John L. McDonnell Jr. Technical Coordinator: David Diamond, AIA Environmental Graphics: Lonny Israel, Alan Sinclair Digital Design Coordinator: Douglas Smith, Associate AIA Architect of Record: Kendall/Heaton Associates, Inc., Houston Mausoleum Contractor: Oliver + Co. Construction and Program Management: Conversion Management Associates, Inc. (CMA, Inc.) Landscape Architect: Peter Walker and Partners Electrical Engineering: The Engineering Enterprise Mechanical Engineering: Taylor Engineering, LLC Civil Engineering: Korve Engineering Consultants: Claude R. Engle, Lighting / Shen Milsom & Wilke, Inc., Acoustics / Brother William Woeger, Liturgical Art / Auerbach Pollack Friedlander, Theater / C.S. Caulkins Co., Inc., Building Maintenance / Schoenstein & Co., Consultant / Letourneau Pipe Organs Ltd., Construction, Organ / HMA Consulting Inc., Security / Persohn/Hahn Associates, Inc., Elevator / Rolf Jensen & Associates, Code / Treadwell & Rollo, Soils / Cini-Little International, Inc., Foodservice   http://www.archdaily.com/13276/the-cathedral-of-christ-the-light-som/< 上页     来源：下页 > 翻译：parameter