架构师提供的文本描述。BSkyB电视制作和传输设备：一个“创意工厂”，是迄今为止设计的最可持续的广播演播室。Harlequin 1大楼为广播环境下的可持续建筑设定了一个国际基准。

Text description provided by the architects. BSkyB Television Production and Transmission Facility: a ‘factory for creativity’ that is the most sustainable broadcasting studio yet designed. The Harlequin 1 building sets an international benchmark for sustainable architecture in a broadcasting environment.

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Harlequin 1将为天空广播和体育新闻部门提供录音、后期制作和传输设施.在规模上，这座大型建筑大致相当于纽约市的两个街区-100米长和50米宽。

Harlequin 1 will house recording, post-production and transmission facilities for Sky’s Broadcast and Sports News departments. In scale this large building is roughly equivalent to two New York City blocks – 100m long and 50m wide.

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该建筑分为三个区域：“制造”、“形状”和“共享”。较低的楼层包括制作电视内容的大型演播室。中间层包括数据中心、生产设施和编辑套件，其中的内容是“形状”的。上层包含电视信号“共享”的传输平台。

The building is divided horizontally into three zones: ‘make’, ‘shape’ and ‘share’. Lower floors contain the giant studios within which television content is made. Middle floors contain the data centres, production facilities and editing suites within which the content is ‘shaped’. And the upper floor contains the transmission platforms from which the television signal is ‘shared’.

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该建筑的建筑戏剧性地表达了其世界领先的可持续技术。录音室巨大的自然通风烟囱在Harlequin 1号的外部被展示出来，一些人把它比作21世纪的新发电站建筑。Harlequin 1捕捉了现场的每一种可行的自然资源，并从根本上减少了能源的使用。有8家最先进的自然通风工作室，可供1370人使用的自然通风办公室，以及400多台计算机服务器的免费冷却数据室。这种类型的生产设备通常消耗大量能源。在Harlequin 1，设计团队与天空和地方当局合作，为可持续性设定了一个国际基准。

The architecture of the building dramatically expresses its world leading sustainable technology. The giant natural ventilation chimneys of the recording studios are revealed on the exterior of Harlequin 1, which some have likened to a new power station architecture for the twenty-first century. Harlequin 1 captures every viable natural resource on the site; and radically minimises energy use throughout. There are 8 state of the art naturally ventilated studios, naturally ventilated offices for 1370 people, and free-cooled data rooms for more than 400 computer servers. Production facilities of this type are normally massively energy consuming. At Harlequin 1, the design team has worked with Sky and the local authority to set an international benchmark for sustainability.

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简报的另一个重要部分是塑造一座适合BSkyB工作人员年轻精神的建筑。Arup Associates对“终身可持续性”的兴趣集中在建筑的人类体验上，并导致在Harlequin 1创建一个非常有效和灵活的布局，这非常符合BSkyB的工作文化。后期生产和技术空间的位置集中，办公空间包围周围的建筑，以允许进入自然日光和新鲜空气。建筑物管理系统优化了建筑物的冷却和通风，窗户可以由住户单独控制。建筑中庭允许在建筑的各个层次之间进行视觉交流，为员工提供一种规模感和位置感。入口上方的悬臂区包含一系列以人为中心的空间，包括绿地、突破区、咖啡厅和会议室。Harlequin 1的感觉与公司办公室的感觉不同。与报纸地板和电视公司的生产套间相一致的设计，在很大程度上是一种工业上的稀缺性。

Another important part of the brief was to shape a building that suited the youthful spirit of staff at BSkyB. Arup Associates’ interest in “whole-life sustainability” focuses on the human experience of a building, and has lead to the creation of a highly effective and flexible layout at Harlequin 1 that is very much in keeping with the working culture at BSkyB. Post-production and technical spaces are positioned centrally, with office space wrapping around the perimeter of the building to allow access to natural daylight and fresh air. A building management system optimises the cooling and ventilation of the building, windows can be individually controlled by occupants. The building atrium allows a visual communication between all levels of the buildings, providing employees with a sense of scale and location. A cantilevered zone above the entrance contains a series of people- centred spaces, including greenrooms, breakout zones, a cafe, and meetings rooms. The feel of Harlequin 1 is unlike that of a corporate office. There is an industrial rawness to much of the design in keeping with that of newspaper floors and the production suites of TV companies.