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架构师提供的文本描述。卡鲁姆-唐斯警察局是我们为维多利亚警察完成的一系列工作中的第三座，也是最大的一座。作为这个组织一个由普通建筑组成的公民网络的下一个环节，它延续了我们早先对通用简报本地化的兴趣，以及传统项目可能为某种程度的创新提供的机会。

Text description provided by the architects. The Carrum Downs Police Station is the third and largest in a series we have completed for the Victoria Police. As the next link in a civic network of modest buildings for this organisation it continues our earlier interest in the localization of a generic brief and the opportunity that a conventional project might present for a degree of innovation. 

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该设施可容纳来自制服科、交通管理组及外勤事务科的70人，并须以一系列独立地带的形式组织，每个分区均有其本身的身份、功能、保安、设施及与外界的关系。还需要在入口更有效地分离不同的用户群体，以便在邀请的公共界面和安全的行动区域之间取得平衡。与这些职能要求平行的是，必须通过这一架构反映维多利亚州警察的首选和不断变化的组织文化，以及从高度单元化向更加开放的计划工作场所的转变。

The facility accommodates 70 people from the Uniform Branch, Traffic Management Unit and Field Services Division and was required to be organised as a series of discrete zones -each with its own identity, set of functions, security, amenity and relationship to outside. More effective separation of different user groups at the entry was also required to balance between an inviting public interface and secure areas for operations.  Parallel to these functional requirements was the imperative to reflect, through the architecture, the preferred and changing organizational culture of the Victoria Police and a move from a highly cellular to more open plan workplace. 

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因此，考虑到这一变化，我们试图重新考虑24小时站的类型，特别是在计划中，我们认为它是一个社区，而不是一个机构。我们把这座车站想象成一个迷你城市，而不是通常的中央走廊两边都有隔间：每一个方案要素都是一个单独的体积，实质上被当作一座建筑，通过特定的砖块选择来区分。

So with this change in mind we sought to rethink the typology of the 24-hour station especially in plan and consider it as a community rather than an institution. In place of the usual long central corridor with cubicles either side we imagined this station as a mini city: a cluster of programmatic elements each figured as an individual volume, treated materially as a building and distinguished through a particular choice of brick. 

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作为一个要素的集合，它们是由屋顶和慷慨的流通空间联合起来的，有时与相邻的方案重叠和扩展，形成组织部门之间非正式交流和重叠的地区。包括内部庭院，允许光，通风和方面的内部空间，同时保持隐私和安全的外部街道外观。

As a collection of elements they are united by the roof and the generous circulation spaces that at times overlap with and extend the adjacent program to form break out areas for informal exchange and overlaps between the organizational divisions. The inclusion of internal courtyards allows light, ventilation and aspect to interior spaces while maintaining privacy and security to the external street facades. 

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在内部，砖的颜色和质地的变化将这些区域表示为一个离散的体积(作为一座小型建筑)，并提供了一种定位和身份的手段。从外部看，砖面是国内的，并参考了邻近郊区的情况。虽然车站的形式主要很低，但入口塔将设施的规模从国内转移到民用，而且作为夜间照明的灯塔，维多利亚警察将出现在高速公路上。

Internally the variation of the colour and texture of the brick expresses each of these zones as a discrete volume (as a mini building) and provides a means of orientation and identity. Externally the brick face presents as domestic and references the adjacent suburban condition. While the station is predominantly low in form the entry tower shifts the scale of the facility from domestic to civic, and as an illuminated beacon at night, heralds the presence of the Victoria Police on the highway.

Architects Kerstin Thompson Architects

Location Carrum Downs, Victoria, Australia

Category Police Station

Design Team Kerstin Thompson, Kelley Mackay, Scott Diener, Mike Macleod, Jacqui Alexander, Laurence Dragomir

Area 2080.0 sqm

Project Year 2010

Photographs Peter Bennetts