菲罗兹·拉吉全球中心‌作为伦敦政治经济学院（LSE）市中心校园布局的最后一座建筑，坐落于林肯律师公会广场南侧的核心位置。该建筑以应对全球性挑战为使命，内部规划包含学术、会议和教学空间、数字实验室以及一座250座的集会厅。充分体现新中心的精神，设计方案通过适应性再利用策略，保留现有建筑的大部分结构，将建成LSE首座净零碳建筑。

The Firoz Lalji Global Hub is the final set-piece addition to the London School of Economics’ (LSE) central London campus and is prominently located on the south side of Lincoln’s Inn Fields. With the mission to address global issues, the building will include conference facilities, academic and teaching spaces, digital labs, and a 250-seat theatre. The design embraces the ethos of the new centre through a strategy of adaptive re-use that will see large parts of the existing structure retained helping make it LSE’s first net zero carbon building.

总平面图  site plan

位于林肯律师公会广场35号的现有建筑，建于二战结束后，虽未被列入法定建筑遗产名录，但它仍体现出重要的物质和文化价值。改造方案采用激进的再利用策略，选择保留超过60%的现有结构。两个主要立面也得到保留，并分别向林肯律师公会广场和葡萄牙街进一步开放。

The current building on 35 Lincoln’s Inn Fields was built shortly after World War II. While not a formally recognised as an architectural heritage asset it does represent significant material and cultural capital. The proposal takes a radical approach to re-use and keeps over 60% of the existing structures. The two principal façades are also preserved and opened to Lincoln’s Inn Fields and Portugal Street respectively.

提案  proposal

The Lincoln’s Inn Fields façade is confidently reimagined as a large civic palazzo, elevating and enhancing its formal setting on the square. All the brickwork is lightly lime washed to establish a singular quality in dialogue with the Royal College of Surgeons, strengthening the civic presence of LSE on the square. A light-weight timber structure extends the building by two stories giving further prominence to the building.

开放的大厅占据了地面层，创造了一个热情的入口空间，并通过动线优化实现公园与LSE校园更顺畅的联系。位于建筑中心的集会厅是一个圆形、灵活、多功能的空间，可容纳250人。它嵌入现有结构中，结合艺术家玛格达琳·奥杜多设计的雕塑式天花，向广场另一侧由约翰·索恩设计的建筑致敬。集会厅将线上与线下的人们聚集到一个共享空间中，以新型的学习和交流，成为LSE精神的具象化载体。

An accessible open lobby occupies the ground floor creating a welcoming entrance space and a route through the site that better connects the park to the LSE campus. At its centre is the 250-seat agora – a round, flexible, multi-purpose space that is excavated out of the existing structure and features a sculptural ceiling designed by the artist Magdalene Odundo that references the architecture of John Soane found across the square. The agora will bring people together both physically and virtually into a common space that facilitates new ways of learning and interaction, becoming a physical representation of LSE’s values.

通过用木结构替代建筑物中心的现有结构，并引入开敞的楼梯作为交通核，一个自然光充沛的中庭在圆形集会厅上方的二层形成。从中庭可以进入面向广场一侧的菲罗兹·拉尔吉非洲研究所和面向校园一侧的数据科学中心。中间的楼层将容纳数学与统计学等教研单元，而新建的顶层空间则设有高管教育设施和餐厅。这些空间通过向北和向南的开放式敞廊收纳林肯律师公会广场和伦敦天际线的景色。

A light-filled atrium is located on the first floor directly above the central agora. This space is created through the removal of the structure at the centre of the block and its replacement with a new timber construction that incorporates circulation through an open staircase. The atrium gives direct access to the Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa and the Data Sciences facilities which face the square and campus respectively. The central floors contain the academic departments including mathematics and statistics, while the new upper floors house facilities for advanced and executive education as well as a restaurant. These spaces connect to open loggias to the north and south offering views over Lincoln’s Inn Fields and the London skyline.

项目开始：2022

Project start: 2022

Gross floor area: 11,500 m²

Client: London School of Economics and Political Science

Architect: David Chipperfield Architects London

Partners: David Chipperfield, Alasdair Graham