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架构师提供的文本描述。一个富有表现力的现代玻璃展馆，以重振一个传统的使馆大院

Text description provided by the architects. A highly expressive modern glass pavilion to reinvigorate a traditional embassy compound

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在中国大使馆大院内设计这座新建筑时，为了将现有的25x10米地下游泳池包围起来，汤森建筑师事务所提供了一个反射和美丽的地方，这座建筑让使用者既可以在阳光下洗澡，也可以在水中洗澡。

In designing this new building within the Chinese Embassy compound to enclose an existing 25 x 10m in‑ground swimming pool, Townsend + Associates Architects have provided a place of reflection and beauty; a building that allows its users to bathe in light as well as water.

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“这一切都是关于光和创造一个节能的例子，建筑类型，是众所周知的能源需求。有一个室内游泳池，让大使馆的家庭在清光中洗澡，算出他们的圈数，或者只是四处飞溅。“(建筑师布鲁斯·汤森)

“It’s all about the light and creating an energy efficient example of a building type that is notoriously energy hungry. To have an indoor swimming pool for Embassy families to bathe in light as they count out the laps or just splash about.” (Bruce Townsend, Architect)

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这座建筑表面上的简单掩盖了它技术上的复杂性。在一个严格限制的地点内，新的建筑无疑是一个现代插入到传统的主题建筑的网站。然而，通过微妙的颜色和形式的反映，建筑物承认其邻国的传统表达方式。

The building’s apparent simplicity belies its technical complexity. Housed within a tightly constrained site, the new building is unmistakably a modern insertion into the traditionally themed architecture of the site. Yet, through subtle reflection of colour and forms, the building acknowledges the traditional expressions of its neighbours.

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整个建筑的围护结构是高度绝缘的，双层玻璃和完全热破坏。双层Uform玻璃采用低层涂层，进一步提高了热性能。一种新的最先进的臭氧水处理系统对极高的水质需要很低的化学输入，并减少了通常与室内水池相关的腐蚀性氯环境。

The entire building envelope is highly insulated, double glazed and fully thermally broken. The double skinned Uform glazing incorporates a LowE coating to further improve thermal performance. A new state-of-the-art ozone water treatment system requires very low chemical input for extremely high water quality and reduces the corrosive chlorine environment normally associated with indoor pools.

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这是一个玻璃展馆，一年四季光芒四射，在冬天被阳光淹没，在夏天有很好的阴影。尽管它的外观精致，但通过其表达的钢结构和简单的材料调色板：玻璃、钢和木材，它具有高度的功能和装饰性。

It is a glass pavilion that glows with light all year around flooded with sun in winter and deliciously shaded in summer. Despite its refined appearance the building is highly functional and decorative through its expressed steel structure and simple palette of materials: glass, steel and timber.

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Architects Townsend + Associates Architects

Location Embassy of the Peoples Republic of China, 15 Coronation Dr, Yarralumla ACT 2600, Australia

Category Swimming Pool

Area 562.0 sqm

Project Year 2014

Photographs John Gollings