非常感谢

Architecture Matters

Appreciation towards

Architecture Matters

for providing the following description:

喵星人的数量随着人类数量的增多而增多。针对这种社会情况，这栋位于澳大利亚墨尔本马尔文的流量猫之家可谓是一个低成本高持续性的动物之家。

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.

位于繁茂树林之中的建筑由仓库改建。全新的红色和白色金属外表皮成为沿公路的一个醒目标示。吸引人们进入，提高流浪猫领养机会。

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.

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.

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.