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架构师提供的文本描述。BattelleDarbyCreek地铁公园自然中心是一个1.4万SF游客中心，是地铁公园最大的公园，占地7000英亩的BattelleDarbyCreek地铁公园。自然中心作为一个教育和解释的建筑，为游客培养他们的知识，公园的多样性生态系统。这座建筑的核心是一条53英尺长的有生命的溪流，它再现了公园内的河岸栖息地，以及其他鼓励游客与周围自然世界互动的展品。

Text description provided by the architects. The Battelle Darby Creek Metro Park Nature Center is a 14,000 SF visitors’ center for Metro Parks’ largest park, the 7,000 acre Battelle Darby Creek Metro Park. The Nature Center serves as an educational and interpretive building for visitors to cultivate their knowledge of the park’s diverse ecosystems. At the heart of the building is a 53-foot long living stream, which reproduces the riparian habitats found within the park, and other interactive exhibits which encourage engagement by visitors with the natural world around them.

这座建筑位于俄亥俄州土生土长的大草原中，坐落在一座可以俯瞰公园南面野牛圈的小丘边缘。这座建筑物被精心布置，以避开“达比流域协议”的边界，该协议管辖着靠近达比分水岭的开发活动。

The building is located amidst native Ohio prairie at the edge of a knoll overlooking the park’s bison enclosure to the south. The building was carefully placed to stay out of the boundaries of the Darby Watershed Accord, which governs development adjacent to the Darby watershed.

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布拉德·费因克诺普夫

设计团队面临的主要挑战是如何将建筑置于独特而脆弱的自然环境中。因此，小组继续设计一座建筑物，以减少其自身的影响，无论是在物理上、视觉上还是在环境上。建筑物退到景观中，让游客专注于建筑物周围的环境，而不是建筑物本身。从北看，只有高楼大厦门廊和主大厅的屋顶清晰可见。当一个人走近大楼时，门廊将野牛围护的视野和建筑物外的树木衬托的地平线围起来。凹陷在山坡上，从北方只能看到一层；只有从南方才能看到大自然中心的整个两层楼。镀锌波纹钢墙板是主要的外墙面材料，是该地区早期历史上的农田。

The primary challenge faced by the design team was how to place a building in a unique and fragile natural setting. Consequently, the team pursued the design of a building that reduces its own impact, physically, visually, and environmentally. The building recedes into the landscape, allowing the visitor to focus on the building’s surroundings, rather than the building itself. From the north, only the high roof of the building’s porch and main lobby is visible. As one approaches closer to the building, the porch frames the view of the bison enclosure and tree-lined horizon beyond the building. Recessed into the hillside, only a single story is visible from the north; it is only from the south that one sees the full two-stories of the Nature Center. Galvanized corrugated steel siding is the primary exterior siding material, a nod to the area’s earlier history as farmland.

种植有天然植被的绿色屋顶将建筑物对景观的影响降到最低，作为证据，大都会公园在去年春天在屋顶上观察到鸟类筑巢。来自建筑物和停车场的雨水径流被引导到一系列的生物湿地和与本土物种种植的湿地中。

A green roof planted with native vegetation minimizes the building’s impact upon the landscape, and as proof Metro Parks’ has observed birds nesting on the roof this past spring. Stormwater runoff from both the building and parking lots are channeled into a series of bioswales and wetlands planted with native species.

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该建筑采用了适应气候变化的设计原则，包括冬季被动式太阳能增益和夏季遮阳的正确定位，使用可操作的窗户进行自然通风，高度绝缘的建筑围护结构(是法规要求的R值的两倍)，以及地热地源热泵的使用。该建筑预计将需要一半的能源，传统建筑的用途和大小相似。自然中心正在推行LEED银牌认证。

The building employs the principles of climate-responsive design, including proper orientation for passive solar gain in the winter and shading in the summer, the use of operable windows for natural ventilation, a highly-insulated building envelope (double the R-value required by code), and the use of geothermal ground-source heat pumps. The building is anticipated to require half the energy of a conventional building of similar use and size. The Nature Center is pursuing LEED Silver certification.

Architects DesignGroup

Location 1415 Darby Creek Drive, Galloway, OH 43119, United States

Category Learning

Designer Michael Bongiorno

Project Architect, Sustainability Manager William Keoni Fleming

Project Associate Joseph Mayer

Area 14000.0 ft2

Project Year 2012

Photographs Brad Feinknopf