架构师提供的文本描述。在苏黎世-赫德恩建造的新维修设施将使瑞士联邦铁路公司(SBB)能够轻松地处理长达400米的未来列车。SBB将能够清洁和修理整个城际列车组成，而不拆卸他们，因为整个列车可以进入设施。

Text description provided by the architects. The new maintenance facility being built at Zurich-Herdern will allow SBB (Swiss Federal Railways) to handle future trains of up to 400 metres in length with ease. SBB will be able to clean and repair entire intercity train compositions without disassembling them, since the entire train can enter the facility.

通过它的中心位置，紧邻苏黎世西部迅速发展的新社区，凭借其巨大的面积，这座新建筑具有巨大的城市化意义。它塑造了城市的边缘，朝着铁轨的巨大空旷，迎接旅客乘火车进入城市，标志着他们已经接近市中心。

Through its central position next to the rapidly developing new neighborhood of Zurich-West and by virtue of its sheer size, the new building aquires great urbanistic significance. It shapes the edge of the city towards the great emptiness of the railway tracks and greets visitors entering the city by train, signaling that they have arrived close to the city center.

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在竞赛开始时，许多设计决定已经由SBB作出，或由现有服务设施旁边的网站预先确定，其局限性：大小、在场地上的位置、功能布局、结构网格等等。竞争的任务是找到一个经济上可行的，同时在建筑上令人满意的解决方案，一个巨大的技术基础设施降落在城市的中心。竞赛团队由工程师领导，建筑师的工作仅限于“给怪物一张脸”，即想出一个不仅仅是技术包层的外观。

At the start of the competition many design decisions had already been taken by SBB or were predefined by the site next to an existing service facility and its limitations: Size, placement on the site, the functional layout, structural grid and so on were all given. The competition task was to find an economically feasible and at the same time architecturally satisfying solution to a huge technical infrastructure landed in the middle of a city. The competition team was headed by engineers, and the architect’s job was limited to “giving the monster a face”, i.e. to come up with a façade that would be more than just a technical cladding.

我们决定把精力集中在南面，把设计工作和资金集中在那里。内部结构的重复性导致我们使用模块化元素。由于建筑的巨大面积和它看起来像一个毫无特色的拉伸盒的危险，我们得出了立面三维调制的想法。纤维水泥元素的弯曲使无边无际的外观从单调的平面中解放出来，呈现出一种光与影的效果。这种调制跨越了几个元素，形成了一个适合于建筑物巨大大小的图案。由于消防车车道的限制，圆形构件的曲率和悬臂在地面上受到限制。在地面4米处，曲率和悬臂都增加，从而产生了增加的三维缓冲效应。服务大厅的两端都有巨大的入口门，都被视为剪裁，其中的空间立面是平的。不太北的外观是与规则的起伏的纤维混凝土包覆元件。

We decided to concentrate on the southern façade and concentrate design effort and money there. The repetitiveness of the inner structure led us to work with modular elements. Due to the sheer size of the building and the danger of it looking like a featureless stretched box, we arrived at the idea of a three dimensional modulation of the façade. The curvature of the fiber cement elements frees the endless façade from its flat monotony and renders a play of light and shadow. The modulation extends across several elements to form a pattern that fits the enormous size of the building. The curvature and cantilever of the rounded elements is limited at ground level due to restrictions given by the fire truck lane. At 4 m above ground, both curvature and cantilever increases to produce an increased threedimensional cushion effect. Both ends of the service hall with their huge entrance doors are treated as cuts, where the spatial façade is cut flat. The less northern façade is clad with regular undulating fiber concrete cladding elements.

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