架构师提供的文本描述。建筑事务寻求谈判形成对比的硬边城市和田园地周围的斯坦宁顿动物收容所遗址周围的设置，响应现有的庞顿建筑和毗邻的斯坦宁顿仓库建筑群的当代建筑，同时满足预计的需求，可持续住房的城市人口的丢失和遗弃猫在“最佳做法”的住所。

Text description provided by the architects. Architecture Matters sought to negotiate the contrasting hard-edged urban and idyllic parkland settings surrounding the Stonnington Animal Pound site, responding to the contemporary architecture of the existing Pound building and adjacent Stonnington Depot complex, whilst meeting the projected requirements for sustainably housing the municipalities’ growing population of lost and abandoned cats in ‘best-practice’ accommodation.

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由此产生的楔形钢覆盖建筑，其相对简单、经济实惠的形式和结构介于“鸭子”和“装饰棚子”之间，试图在到达时从人行道上看到、高速通过时或从公园长凳上沉思时与之接触。

The resulting wedge-like, steel clad building, with its relatively simple, cost-effective though dynamic forms and textures sits somewhere between the ‘duck’ and the ‘decorated shed’, seeking to engage when viewed from a footpath on arrival, a freeway when passing at speed or from a park-bench in contemplation.

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动态进入屏幕箔直接与车站附近的道路屏幕说话，这是一个手势，以创建一个明确的统一的城市分局，尽管一个相对平淡的用途。新的屏幕也更好地标志着建筑入口惠斯特也提供了一个过滤的前景进入和走出猫的户外游戏围场。

The dynamic entry-screen foils speak directly to the Depot’s nearby road-screens in a gesture towards creating an identifiably unified civic precinct, albeit one with relatively unglamorous use. The new screens also better signify the building entry whist also providing a filtered outlook into and out of the cats’ outdoor play enclosures.

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这些设施的环境性能通过提供雨水来清洗现有的狗罩和新的厕所水箱、传感器控制的低能照明配件、交叉通风机会、窗户打开时空调系统切断、高性能隔热屋顶、低E、双层玻璃和外部遮阳窗而得到提高。

The facilities’ environmental performance was enhanced through rainwater tanks providing rain water for the washing of existing dog enclosures and new WC cisterns; sensor-controlled low-energy light fittings; cross-ventilation opportunities; air conditioning system cut-offs when windows are opened; high-performance thermal roof insulation; low-E, double-glazed and externally shaded windows.