架构师提供的文本描述。音乐、戏剧和舞蹈教育被证明能培养儿童的发展。事实上，研究发现，学习这些有创造力的科目可以帮助学生在其他学科中脱颖而出，甚至可以提高孩子的智商[1]。

Text description provided by the architects. Music, drama and dance education is proven to nurture a child’s development. In fact, research has found that learning these creative subjects helps students excel in other subjects and can even increase a child’s IQ[1].

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奥克兰教区女子学校非常清楚地意识到将艺术融入学生学习体验的好处。这所学校最近完成了他们令人兴奋的新音乐

Auckland’s Diocesan School for Girls is acutely aware of the benefits of integrating the arts into the student learning experience. The school recently completed their exciting new Music & Drama Centre, which is unsurprisingly located at the heart of their campus.

建筑师McIldowie Partners和Upton建筑公司希望通过为学生设计一个新的创意之家来庆祝学校获奖的音乐、戏剧和舞蹈节目。

Architects McIldowie Partners and Upton Architects wanted to celebrate the school’s award-winning music, drama and dance programmes by designing a new creative home for students.

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“学校的音乐

“The school’s Music & Drama departments were excelling in their standards of production and performance, but both were accommodated in facilities well below the Diocesan School standard, in adaptively reused buildings,” says Craig Brown, Director of McIldowie Partners.

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“虽然当时的课堂并没有妨碍教育成果，但学校认为有必要让这些重要科目在很长一段时间内得到高水平的传授。”

“While the classrooms were not hindering education outcomes at the time, the school identified the need to enable a high-level delivery of these important subjects well into the future.”

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新大楼设有独奏、合唱、管弦乐团和合唱团的音乐练习室，以及戏剧和舞蹈团的新楼表演工作室。

The new building accommodates music practice rooms for soloists, ensembles, orchestras and choirs, and sprung-floor performance studios for drama and dance troupes.

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隔音的录音和打击乐演播室被连接到表演空间，专业地捕捉和设计制作的音乐。

Acoustically-isolated recording and percussion studios are wired into the performance spaces to professionally capture and engineer the music produced.

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在内部，每扇窗户的门口都能瞥见房间内的活动，这引起了人们的好奇心和雄心。每个学生都渴望成为乐队、管弦乐队、合唱团的一员。

Internally, each windowed doorway offers glimpses at the activities within the rooms, inviting curiosity and ambition. Every student can aspire to be in the band, the orchestra, the chorus.

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从外部看，建筑设计是一种看似简单的三层建筑形式，坐落于1854年建造的圣巴纳巴斯教堂(StBarnabas)。教堂的合唱遗产现在体现在它的新邻居身上。McIldowie合作伙伴和厄普顿建筑师精心设计了一个尊重传统的教堂的当代设计。

Externally, the building design is a deceptively simple three-storey form that sits alongside the school’s splendid Chapel of St Barnabas, built in 1854. The Chapel’s choral legacy is now embodied by its new neighbour. McIldowie Partners and Upton Architects carefully created a contemporary design respectful of the heritage-listed Chapel.

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建筑师们在建筑中用一层打孔的铝制花边轻轻地包裹着“窗帘”，反映了音乐和戏剧的节奏和运动。这微妙起伏的面纱变幻的色调和阴影一整天，巧妙地过滤严酷的西方太阳通过一个错综复杂的编织叶模式。

The architects wrapped the building in a gently faceted ‘curtain’ of perforated aluminium lacework, reflecting the rhythm and movement of music and drama. This subtly undulating veil shifts in tone and shade throughout the day, cleverly filtering the harsh western sun through an intricate woven leaf pattern.

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音乐教室

The Music & Drama Centre is the latest stage in the school’s 15-year masterplan, prepared by McIldowie Partners and Upton Architects in 2005. The building is a key component of Diocesan School for Girls’ continued development of young, world-class musicians, actors and performers.

[1]Schellenberg，E.G.(2006)。音乐课程与智商之间的长期积极关联。教育心理学杂志，98(2)，457-468。

[1]Schellenberg, E. G. (2006). Long-term positive associations between music lessons and IQ. Journal of Educational Psychology, 98(2), 457-468.

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