架构师提供的文本描述。新西兰惠灵顿动物园的中心提供了一个适合爬行动物居民和人类游客的多样化计划。大会建筑师有限公司重新设计了一座前大象屋的奇特入口门面，形成了一个有围墙的餐饮庭院，利用挖掘的场地形成了夯土爬行动物栖息地，并为日间野餐和晚会设计了一个独特的活动展馆。

Text description provided by the architects. The Hub at Wellington Zoo, New Zealand features a diverse programme to suit the reptile inhabitants and the human visitors. Assembly Architects Limited repurposed the curious entry facade of a former elephant house to form a walled dining courtyard, used site excavations to form a rammed earth reptile habitat and designed a unique event pavilion for daytime picnics and evening parties.

惠灵顿动物园位于市中心一带-一个绿色植物的公共保护区，环绕着市中心和郊区的群山。当建筑师贾斯汀(Justin)和路易丝·赖特(Louise Wright)发现在一个人造鸭塘、一个废弃的大象架和破旧的大象房子下面的北面晒太阳的地方时，动物园里空荡荡的平地是罕见的。卡玛拉是动物园里最后一只大象，于1983年去世，结束了半个世纪以来生活在动物园里的大象时代。

Wellington Zoo is situated within the Town Belt - a verdant public reserve that arcs around the hills of the central city and suburbs. Unoccupied flat land within the zoo grounds was a rarity when architects Justin and Louise Wright identified the potential of the sun drenched north facing site beneath a man-made duckpond, a disused elephant mounting stand, and the dilapidated elephant house. Kamala, the last elephant at the Zoo died in 1983, ending a half-century era of elephants resident at the Zoo.

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从南方下坡的接近，现有的大象屋拱门入口打开了一个休闲餐厅庭院。除了对拱顶的地震加固、小修理抹灰和色彩鲜艳的新油漆工作外，对现有的立面几乎没有什么作用。庭院墙壁增加了固定的长椅座，加上油漆过的木材野餐桌，为亭式食物、冰淇淋和咖啡创造了一个休闲就餐场所。

From the southern downhill approach the existing elephant house archway entry opens into a casual dining courtyard. Little was done to the existing facade save for earthquake strengthening to the dome topped arches, minor repair plastering and a colourful new paint job. Fixed bench seating was added to the courtyard walls, which together with painted timber picnic tables create a casual dining court for the kiosk style food, ice cream and coffee.

一个半透明的天篷屋顶支撑在层压板木梁之上的庭院和一个低矮的建筑，其中包括亭与后置服务室，餐饮准备厨房，公共厕所和安全的工作人员进入规模较小的苗圃围场。一条有盖的走廊连接所有职员服务区，方便地从邻近的服务车辆交接区卸货，而接驳区现时亦与公众地方分隔，并有明确的景观处理。

A translucent canopy roof supported on Laminated Veneer Lumber beams soars atop the courtyard and over a low-slung building that contains the kiosk together with back-of-house service rooms, a catering preparation kitchen, public toilets and secure staff access to the Scaly Nursery reptile enclosure. A covered corridor connects all of the staff service areas and facilitates easy loading from the adjacent service vehicle delivery zone, which is also now separated from the public areas with well defined landscape treatment.

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在建筑物的公共部分，爬行动物被展示在通风玻璃正面在夯土墙内晒太阳。地球来源于动物园内的挖掘，并通过水泥加固以防止侵蚀。由于该场地位于地震多发区，夯土也是钢质加固的，并保护其免受带有钢轨的婴儿车轮毂的影响，使之与扶手相匹配。四个栖息地，每一个与照片乙烯基背景，步骤下山通过一个温和的坡道观看。

On the public side of the building, the reptiles are presented basking in ventilated glass fronted cases within a substantial wall of rammed earth. The earth was sourced from excavations within the zoo grounds and is stabilized with cement to counter erosion. Since the site is in an earthquake prone zone, the rammed earth is also steel reinforced, and protected from stroller wheels with steel rails to match the handrails. The 4 habitats, each with photographic vinyl backdrops, step downhill with viewing via a gentle ramp.

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在夯土部分的横墙标志着有鳞的苗圃的结束，并通向公厕和亭的南端。短短的链接允许在现有的成熟卷心菜树(Ti Kouka/Cordyline aualalis)周围空间，并在咖啡厅和展馆被占用时提供专用的厕所和爬行动物通道。该链接是由一个悬臂屋顶的折叠钢板，这是由一个纸折叠研究在建筑工作室。夯土段之间的缝隙可以瞥见收集用于公厕的雨水的水箱。

A transverse wall in rammed earth sections signals the end of the Scaly Nursery and leads toward the public toilets, and to the southern end of the pavilion. The short link allows space around an existing mature cabbage tree (Ti Kouka/ Cordyline Australis) and provides dedicated access to the toilets and reptiles when the cafe and pavilion are occupied. The link is sheltered by a cantilevered roof of folded steel sheets that resulted from a paper folding study in the architecture studio. Slots between the rammed earth sections allow glimpses of the rain water tanks which collect the water for use in the public toilets.

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3.喷气机有限公司(Mike Heydon)

这座展馆的清晰跨度约为7米，长度为21米，以动物园最后一头大象的名字命名，它位于东侧，以避开最恶劣的风，面向绿城地带。该结构包括混凝土板、两个预制混凝土端墙和一个支撑拱形帐篷结构的钢框架。

With a clear span of almost 7m and length of 21m the pavilion, named Kamalas after the zoos last elephant is open on the east side to avoid the worst of the wind and face onto the green Town Belt. The structure comprises a concrete slab, two precast concrete end walls, and a steel frame to support a vaulted tent structure.

拱顶在北端和南端由预制混凝土墙支撑，这些墙还包括在活动期间所需的电力、数据和视听连接的服务槽。在开口东面，双通道钢柱支撑一个折叠钢板，这是一个雨沟，并整齐地隐藏滚开透明的塑料门。排水沟板延伸到展馆的两端，在下面的花园里，雨水链覆盖着充满岩石的混凝土管道水收集器。

The vault is supported at the north and south ends by precast concrete walls, which also contain service slots for the power, data and audio visual connections required during events. To the opening east face, double channel steel posts support a folded steel plate over, which acts as a rain gutter and neatly conceals roll-away clear plastic doors. The gutter plate extends beyond the ends of the pavilion, terminating with rain chains over rock filled concrete pipe water catchers for the gardens below.

对保险库框架进行了广泛和协作的设计和原型设计。贾斯汀赖特与结构工程师阿利斯泰尔卡塔纳赫从邓宁桑顿咨询公司http://dunningthornton.co.nz数个月，并经过多次迭代，以得出最终的解决方案，这是彻底测试了多达1：1的原型，然后最后确认。由Fraser工程公司(Fraser Engineering http://www.fraser.org.nz)制造和组装的4mm铝型材是在炮塔冲床上切割的，冲床上有装配用的孔。然后，该形状被压入最后的拱顶半径，在一个成型压力机，粉末涂上光泽黑色油漆。在现场，经过钢框架的精确设置和安装，Fraser工程公司组装了716个弯曲元件，每件重量1.5kg，水平工作到适当的位置，通过预穿孔将大约1400-1500根铝棒转动。最后，1400-1500管节点铆接到弯曲单元，以平衡结构的扭转力，并完成拱顶框架。展馆的集会大约花了3周的时间。

Extensive and collaborative design and prototyping was carried out for the vault framework. Justin Wright worked with structural engineer Alistair Cattanach from Dunning Thornton Consultants http://dunningthornton.co.nz over several months and through many iterations to arrive at the final solution which was thoroughly tested with up to 1:1 prototyping prior to final confirmation. The 4mm aluminium shape, fabricated and assembled by Fraser Engineering http://www.fraser.org.nz was cut on a turret punch complete with holes for assembly. The shape was then pressed into the radius of the final vault on a form press, and powder-coated in gloss black paint. On site, following a precise set-out and erection of the steel frames, Fraser Engineering assembled 716 of the curved elements, weighing 1.5Kg per piece, working horizontally to position in place with around 1400-1500 turned aluminum rods through the pre punched holes. Finally, 1400-1500 tube gussets were riveted to the curved elements to balance the torsional forces in the structure and complete the vault framework. The pavilion assembly took approximately 3 weeks.

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3.喷气机有限公司(Mike Heydon)

展馆是一个轻塑料薄膜，通常用于农业隧道房屋。不透明的薄膜给展馆内部带来了明亮的半透明，在雨和阳光下都有趣的效果。当令人震惊的下午晚些时候，来自西部树木的阴影减弱，人工照明接管和效果被逆转，照亮了结构的形式到外部在夜间。

The pavilion is clad in a lightweight plastic membrane commonly used on agricultural tunnel houses. The opaque film lends a bright translucency to the pavilion interior, with interesting effects in both rain and sun. When the stunning late-afternoon shadow play from the western trees wanes, artificial lighting takes over and the effect is reversed, illuminating the form of the structure to the exterior at night.

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3.喷气机有限公司(Mike Heydon)

除了混凝土板地板和端墙，展馆本质上是一个平面包装的产品设计。最长的钢构件为7.2米，因此金属工厂可在30英尺的集装箱内运输。

Apart from the concrete slab floor and end walls, the pavilion is essentially a flat-packable product design. The longest steel element is 7.2 m, therefore the metal works are transportable in a 30ft shipping container.

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3.喷气机有限公司(Mike Heydon)

该中心于2011年9月由惠灵顿市长西莉亚·韦德-布朗正式开放。新西兰设计师协会授予组装建筑师有限公司为动物园枢纽项目的空间建筑环境类别的银奖“最佳奖”。

The Hub was officially opened by the Wellington mayor Celia Wade-Brown in September 2011. The NZ Designer's Institute awarded Assembly Architects Ltd a silver “Best Award” in the Spatial Built Environment category for the Zoo Hub project.

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