架构师提供的文本描述。咸水海岸是一个新的住房细分点库克附近，将容纳约4，000名居民，并吸引了渴望的第二置业者。开发的主题是利用它的邻近相当美丽的延伸，在西海岸的菲利普港湾。土地所有者和他们的景观设计师在仔细地重新解释敏感的当地生态方面付出了很大的努力，这种生态在切瑟姆湿地有一个非常重要的鸟类迁徙区。

Text description provided by the architects. Saltwater Coast is a new housing subdivision near Point Cook which will accommodate around 4,000 residents and appeal to the aspirational second home buyer. The development thematically exploits its proximity to quite a beautiful stretch on the western shores of Port Phillip Bay. The land owners and their landscape architects have put a great deal of effort into the careful reinterpretation of a sensitive local ecology that boasts a very significant bird migration area at the Cheetham Wetlands.

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作为建筑师，我们面临的问题是如何使郊区扩张的进程与如此敏感的环境相协调。

The question for us as architects was how to reconcile the march of suburban sprawl with such a sensitive environment.

开发商在很大程度上是通过对公共空间的投资来实现这一目标的，其景观解决方案依赖于当地的海滩环境，并坚持为个别房屋提供一个兼容的材料调色板。现场新出现的证据表明，景观解决方案是对公共基础设施的一项非常成功的投资，而住房带来的结果喜忧参半，这与不太注重设计的项目住宅行业的预期大相径庭。

The developers have achieved this largely through investment in public spaces with a landscape solution that is indebted to the local beach context, and by insisting on a compatible material palette for individual houses. The emerging evidence on site suggests that the landscape solution is a very successful investment in public infrastructure, while the housing delivers mixed results, much as expected from the less design focused project home industry.

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在这种情况下，咸水海岸得到了一个新的生活方式中心。这类设施现已成为新分区的专业设施，既可作为社区中心，也可作为居民的私人娱乐俱乐部。该生活方式中心设有膝上池、娱乐池、儿童游泳池、水疗中心、健身房、网球场、咖啡馆和多功能空间，拥有身体健康所需的所有设施，重要的是鼓励了当地人的社区意识和主人翁精神，当地人最终将通过一个法人机构来管理该设施。

Into this context, Saltwater Coast has received a new lifestyle centre. This type of facility is now de rigueur in the new subdivisions, acting as both a community centre and private recreation club for the residents. Containing a lap pool, recreational pool, children’s pool, spa, gymnasium, tennis courts, a café, and multi-purpose function space, the lifestyle centre boasts all the facilities a healthy body would crave, and importantly encourages a sense of community and ownership among the locals, who will in the end manage the facility via a body corporate structure.

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新的设施位于一个突出的角落，对面的一个新的和精心设计的线性公园，尽管被房子包围，该地点显然是被推入公共领域。这就产生了一种对不朽建筑的渴望-这是一种公民建筑，与日益增多的房屋收藏所特有的个人主义的不和谐相对立。

The new facility is located on a prominent corner opposite one of the new and elaborate linear parks, and in spite of being surrounded by houses, the site is clearly thrust into the public realm. This generates a desire for monumentality - an architecture that is civic, in opposition to the cacophony of individualism that characterises the growing collection of houses.

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这座建筑的形式既奇异又复杂-一种整体的木材覆盖的弯曲形状，它移动、折叠和编织自身，同时对视图、地址和更广泛的背景作出反应。这种形式既开放又包含空间。立面的设计是为了给周围的公园和地平线上的城市灯光营造战略视野。一个人可以跟踪内部长廊的运动，就像通过对外部外观的操纵所揭示的那样。

The form of the building is both singular and complex - a monolithic timber clad sinuous form that moves, folds and weaves itself in a simultaneous response to views, address, and the wider context. The form is both open and containing of space. The façade is cut to create apertures for strategic viewing to the adjacent parkland and the city lights on the horizon. One can track the movement of the interior promenade as revealed through the manipulation of the exterior façade.

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由木材、玻璃和深色青铜组成的有节制的调色板使这座建筑有了一种刻意的庄重。细节也是被限制的，并被精练到在另一种工艺建造的环境中被庆祝的工艺。生活中心是一个位于郊区的海滨展馆，有着超越其规模和周边环境的愿望。

A restrained palette of timber, glass and dark bronze lends the building a deliberate gravitas. Detailing is also restrained, and refined to the point where craftsmanship is celebrated in an otherwise process built environment. The Lifestyle Centre is a coastal pavilion in a suburban setting, with aspirations beyond its size and immediate environment.

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NH建筑公司成功地为当地社区提供了一个高质量、独特设计的社区中心，在一个强大的商业环境下交付，并为Point Cook及其周围地区树立了一个基准。

NH Architecture has successfully provided the local community with a high quality, uniquely designed community centre, delivered within a robust commercial environment, and setting a benchmark for Point Cook and the surrounding area.