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The Alan Turing Building, named after the mathematician and founder of computer science Alan Turing, is a building at the University of Manchester, in Manchester, England. It houses the School of Mathematics, the Photon Science Institute and the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics (part of the School of Physics and Astronomy). The building is located in the Chorlton-on-Medlock district of Manchester, on Upper Brook Street, and is adjacent to the new University Place. While under construction the project was known as AMPPS : Astronomy, Mathematics, Physics and Photon Science. The building was shortlisted for the Greater Manchester Building of the Year 2008 prize, which is awarded by the Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce. The manager of the building project was awarded a silver medal in the Chartered Institute of Building "Construction Manager of the Year" awards.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Construction Manager of the Year 2008 ) 〕 ==Architecture== The £43m building was completed in July 2007, and was designed by architects Sheppard Robson.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://www.piccadillymanchester.com/index.asp?sessionx=IWU6KWF6JaqiNwB6IHqiNwA&mpage=3 )〕 It consists of three "fingers", each of which are four stories high. The building is of steel frame construction, with reinforced concrete stairwells,〔(【引用サイトリンク】Nick Higham">title=Construction of the Alan Turing Building, University of Manchester ). Photographs clearly show construction details including concrete stairway towers and steel frames. 〕 and grey zinc exterior cladding.〔 The northern two fingers are joined by an atrium, which is spanned by a series of bridges. The southernmost finger was designed to hold low vibration laboratories, and is joined by a glazed bridge at third floor level to the middle finger.〔 An 'over-sailing' roof structure connects the three fingers acting as a suspension system for a photovoltaic array/solar shading using thin film technology. This photovoltaic array is designed to produce nearly 41 megawatt hours per annum, a saving of 17,000 kilograms of carbon dioxide each year.〔 At the time of completion this was the largest photovoltaic array in North West England, and helped the architects to win an award for "Business Commitment to the Environment".〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://www.piccadillymanchester.com/index.asp?Sessionx=IpqiNwF6Il7nNwB6IaqiNwA&realname=Sheppard_Robson_wins_top_award )〕 One condition for planning approval was that the project included corridors for pedestrian access and visual transparency between Upper Brook Street and Oxford Road. This was to counter complaints by the residents of Brunswick, on the other side of Upper Brook Street, that previous university developments seemed to be creating a wall to them. The pedestrian walkway between the second and third finger, and the transparent atrium met these demands.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.manchester.gov.uk/downloads/080756-OCO-0001.pdf )〕 This follows the line of an earlier street, when the site was a residential area, and when reopened will run from Upper Brook Street to Oxford Road and is called "Wilton Street", as it was historically. In the 1960s many mathematics departments were housed in high-rise buildings including the Mathematics Tower at the Victoria University of Manchester, and the Maths and Social Sciences Building at UMIST. These proved completely unsuited to the activities of a mathematics department (and arguably any academic department) as travel between floors in lifts (and uninviting stairways) discourages interaction between mathematicians resulting from chance encounter. Buildings such as the Mathematics Institute at Warwick (at East Site and later the Zeeman Building) and the Isaac Newton Institute at Cambridge are deliberately low-rise and designed to encourage chance encounter. The Alan Turing Building was designed with substantial input from the mathematicians and the design reflects this including a large open plan common room on the atrium bridge, open corridors and walkways and the relocation of the best traditional blackboards from the old buildings. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alan Turing Building」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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