架构师提供的文本描述。乡村中心是堪培拉国家植物园的主要到达点，提供参观方向、信息、教育空间和口译，以及零售和高质量的咖啡馆。

Text description provided by the architects. The Village Centre is the main point of arrival for the National Arboretum Canberra, providing visitor orientation, information, education spaces and interpretation, together with retail and a high-quality café.

 © Brett Boardman

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这座建筑位于活动平台的北端，位于遗址东西向山脊之下，俯瞰着中央山谷的雕塑地貌和毗邻的人工林。它连接中央停车场与主要游乐空间和中央山谷向北和活动平台，草地剧场，花园和步行街网络的南部。游客从停车场通过新建筑进入植物园，穿过森林小丘形成的引人注目的入口切割，成为建筑物最初的定向中心。

The building occupies the northern end of the Event Terrace, sitting below the site’s main east-west ridge, overlooking the sculpted landform of the Central Valley and the adjoining planted forests. It connects the central car park with the major Play Space and the Central Valley northwards and the Event Terrace, grassed Amphitheatre, Gardens and pedestrian pathway network to the south. Visitors enter the Arboretum from the carpark through the new building, passing through the dramatic Entry cutting formed through the forested knoll and serving as the initial orientation focus of the building.

 © Brett Boardman

布雷特·博德曼

大楼的核心是其主要拱形空间，灵活地容纳各种功能，包括展览、功能、零售、咖啡馆和规划活动。它的重点是戏剧性的观点，向东南伯里格里芬湖和堪培拉市，并打开北和南的活动平台的横扫。该建筑发展了悠久的传统，重要的花园建筑作为透明的围护与戏剧性的内部体积和室内-室外连接感。

The heart of the building is its main vaulted space, which flexibly accommodates a range of functions, including exhibitions, functions, retail, the café and programmed activities. It focuses on the dramatic views southeast to Lake Burley Griffin and city of Canberra, and opens to the north and south to the sweep of the Event Terrace. The architecture develops the long-standing tradition of significant garden buildings as transparent enclosures with dramatic internal volumes and sense of indoor-outdoor connection.

 © Brett Boardman

布雷特·博德曼

建筑的外部是一个雕塑形式的滚动地形的现场，对比低石包翅膀和一个高拱形屋顶覆盖的风化锌，其形式是灵感来自智利葡萄酒棕榈毗邻森林的叶子。

The exterior of the building is a sculptural form in the rolling topography of the site, contrasting low stone-clad wings with a high arching roof clad in weathered zinc, the form of which is inspired by the fronds of the adjoining forest of Chilean Wine Palms.

 © Brett Boardman

布雷特·博德曼

在内部，创新的木材结构结合了低环境影响和戏剧性的森林形状，设计成一系列的几何弧线。玻璃条决定了进入的屋顶形状，并照亮了到达点在里面。这座建筑采用了一系列节能措施，支持整个植物园的环境价值，具有非常低的能量包络和结构。

Internally, the innovative timber structure combines low environmental impact with a dramatic forest-like form, designed in a series of geometrical arcs. Slivers of glass define the roof shape towards the entry and light the arrival point inside. The building incorporates a range of energy-saving measures, supporting the environmental value of the Arboretum as a whole, with a very low-energy envelope and structure.