架构师提供的文本描述。巴拉拉特地区综合癌症中心为一个约10万人的区域城市提供服务，该地区向西延伸约5个小时的车程。它汇集了以前在整个城市完全不同的护理/治疗设施，并将这些设施与办公室、研究和教育空间、社区设施和一个健康中心结合起来，建立了一个一站式癌症护理商店。

Text description provided by the architects. The Ballarat Regional Integrated Cancer Centre serves a regional city of approximately 100,000 people and the region extending some five hours’ drive to the west. It brings together facilities for care/therapy/treatment which were previously located disparately across the city, and combines them with office, research and education spaces, community facilities and a Wellness Centre creating a one-stop shop for cancer care.

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该中心与社区的生活和精神联系在一起；容易接触，不让人害怕，在空间上熟悉，温暖，平静和深情，并在一个干净、高效和现代的环境中展现出最先进的护理形象。该中心重振了一座历史建筑，并新建了一座五层高的玻璃塔，其两侧是一个中央等候/会议中庭空间。这个中庭作为一个城镇广场，所有的活动都通过，并且是可见的。从城市街景中画出青石地板、低高墙作为坐席和公共艺术的元素，中庭是人们熟悉的聚会、休闲讨论和非正式知识交流的场所。外界和路人不断变化的天气条件成为日常活动的一部分，因为它们从内部可见。吸声的天然木材线的墙壁和天花板，减少周围的噪音，并提供了一种和平的感觉，在这个空间。

The Centre links to the life and spirit of the community; easily accessible, non-intimidating, spatially familiar, warm, calming and soulful, and projects an image of the most up-to-date care in a clean, efficient and contemporary environment. The Centre reinvigorates an historic building and creates a new five storey glass tower which flanks a central waiting/meeting atrium space. This atrium acts as a town square in which all activity passes through and is visible. Drawing elements from the streetscape of the city including bluestone flooring and low height walls for seating and public art, the atrium is a familiar place for gathering, casual discussion and informal knowledge exchange. Changing weather conditions outside and passers-by become part of the daily activities as they are visible from within. Acoustically absorbent natural timbers line the walls and ceilings reducing ambient noise and providing a sense of peace to those in this space.

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百余年来，巴拉拉特基地医院大楼一直矗立在斯托特和德拉蒙德街道的拐角处。最近，随着更现代化的建筑使它变得多余，它已经被遗弃。这个项目给现有的建筑新的生活，重新融入城市的街道生活，从斯托特街向社区开放，在底层建立一个健康中心。新的琉璃塔随着白天和季节的变化而改变特征。铝片的轮廓投射在玻璃表面的阴影上，玻璃表面反射着云层、天空和周围的树木。突出的位置，也是城市中最高的建筑之一，其独特的轮廓和表面图案项目是对巴拉拉特和该地区人民最先进的关怀的形象。

The Ballarat Base Hospital building has stood at the corner of Sturt and Drummond Streets for over 100 years. In recent times it had fallen derelict as more modern buildings made it redundant. This project gives the existing building new life, reengaging with the street-life of the city by opening up to the community from Sturt Street, to create a Wellness Centre at the ground floor. The new glazed tower changes character through the day and with the seasons. Profiled aluminium fins cast shadows across the glass surface façade which reflects the clouds, sky, and trees around the facility. Prominently sited, and one of the tallest buildings in the city, its distinctive profile and surface patterning project an image of state-of-the-art care for the people of Ballarat and the region.

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C.Shannon McGrath

自然光在整个设施中被使用，以人性化和创造一个令人鼓舞的病人友好的环境。为早晨的阳光、中午的阳光(北方花园点缀的光线)和傍晚的光线提供了独特的空间。雕刻的屋顶和天花板形式吸引自然光进入主要空间。通过打开坚固的墙壁，使用吊灯和松散的家具来分隔功能而不是墙壁，这座建筑被非制度化，空间的创建让人想起一家大型的巴拉拉特乡村咖啡馆或传统的乡村住宅。

Natural light is used throughout the facility to humanise and create an encouraging patient-friendly environment. Distinctive spaces are provided for morning sun, midday sun (light dappled by northern gardens), and evening light. The sculpted roof and ceiling forms draw natural light into the main spaces. By opening up the solid walls, using pendant lighting and loose furniture to separate functions rather than walls, the building is deinstitutionalised and spaces are created reminiscent of a large Ballarat country café or traditionally laid out country home.

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