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架构师提供的文本描述。这场比赛是由黑客帝国.cc建筑师赢得的。

Text description provided by the architects. The competition was won by the Matrix...cc Architects & Urban Designers, whose scheme proposed a structurally playful building that reformed the previously fenced off connection with the local community through the creation of a public square. The inclusion of the building and greater campus into the surrounding context was one of the primary conceptual drivers.

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 1st Floor Key Plan

一楼关键图则

 Section Main Building

截面主楼

在建立空间聚集的建议场地，以容纳空间，设计加强了一个强有力的行人入口，由主要行政大楼的尖顶，强调广场和校园之间的轴向连接。

In establishing the spatial massing of the proposed site to hold the space, the design reinforces the creation of a strong pedestrian entrance, defined by the spire of the main administration building, accentuating the axial link between the square and campus. 

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由于设立了一个新的校园门户，该大楼被分成两部分，其中包括一个“教室大楼”，包括连接三个级别培训设施、演讲室和计算机设施的中央中庭和走廊空间，以及一个“办公大楼”，其中设有行政、安保和工作人员设施。一个巨大的入口天篷，定义了进入校园的入口门槛，并将公共空间之间的过渡进行了分层，在视觉和空间上将这两座建筑连接在一起。

The creation of a new campus gateway resulted in the programme of the building being split in two, with a ‘Classroom Building’, consisting of central atrium and gallery space linking three levels of training facilities, lecture rooms and computer facilities, and an ‘Office Building’, which hosts the administration, security and staff facilities. A grand entrance canopy, defining the gateway threshold into the campus and layering the transition between public spaces, visually and spatially links the two buildings.

 West Elevation Admin Building

西面立面行政大楼

 South Elevation Admin building

南立面行政大楼

该方向最大限度地利用自然光和通风，创造一个明亮和诱人的气氛，渗透到建筑物的三体画廊。作为中央循环脊柱，画廊连接各种教室，培训和计算机中心与一系列的公共空间，谈话坑和一个慷慨开放的中庭在入口处。这种演播室和书房空间的组合进一步延伸到建筑的外部，在那里，宽敞的阳台、外部露台和一座装饰着草的圆形剧场可以举办一系列个人和社区活动。

The orientation maximises natural light and ventilation, creating a bright and inviting atmosphere that permeates the triple volume gallery of the building. Serving as the central circulation spine, the gallery links the various classroom, training and computer centres with a range of communal spaces, conversation pits and a generous open atrium at the entrance. This mix of studio and study spaces is further extended to the outside of the building, where generous verandas, external terraces and an embanked grass amphitheatre allow for a range of personal and communal events.

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该设计被进一步强调，其中包括一个沉重的悬挂筋膜梁跨越沿上边缘的建筑物。然而，结构的许多清晰度都存在于所使用的材料的最小调色板中。在传道谷校园最初使用的面砖设计的指导下，这栋建筑被限制在关闭的混凝土、面砖和钢铁上，并带有NMMU公司红蓝两种颜色的彩绘装饰的口音。

The design is further highlighted by the inclusion of a heavy hanging fascia beam that spans along the upper edge of the building.. Much of the clarity of the structure however resides in the minimised palette of materials employed. Guided by the original face brick design used throughout the Missionvale campus, the building limits itself to off-shutter concrete, face-brick and steel, with accents of painted finishes in the corporate red and blue colours of the NMMU.

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物质性的戏剧也在应用和表面上产生了微妙的变化；混凝土地板被抛光，以揭示光滑暴露的骨料和关闭的快门混凝土之间的对比；设计用于包围工业消防楼梯的穿孔金属屏风，而碾磨后的钢屋面覆盖在软屋顶上，在南立面上产生了奇妙的纹理斑驳效果。五颜六色的马赛克瓷砖放置在有趣和互动的谈话坑，悬挂在中庭和刺穿玻璃正面的建筑物，创造了一个突发的色彩，并提供了一个中心焦点。

Drama in materiality is also created with subtle variations in application and surface; concrete floors are polished to reveal the contrast between the smooth exposed aggregate and off shutter concrete; perforated metal screens designed to enclose the industrial fire escape staircases, while the milled steel roof sheeting to the soft roofs results in a wonderfully textured dappling effect along the southern facade. The colourful mosaic tiles placed on the playful and interactive conversation pit, suspended within the atrium and puncturing the glass facade of the building, create a burst of colour and provide a central focal point.

Architects The Matrix...cc Urban Designers & Architects

Location Port Elizabeth, South Africa

Category University

Architect in Charge The Matrix...cc Urban Designers & Architects

Design Team Prof. Albrecht Herholdt, Gianni Geminiani, Neal Fisher

Area 2147.0 sqm

Project Year 2016

Photographs Rob Duker