架构师提供的文本描述。由于长颈鹿数量的不断增加，奥克兰动物园需要一个新的长颈鹿养殖场；基本上是一个有两个巢穴和一个饲养员区的大棚子。
Text description provided by the architects. Due to expanding giraffe numbers the Auckland Zoo needed a new a giraffe breeding shelter; essentially a functional oversized shed with two dens and a keeper area.
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设计团队对这份简报作出了回应，提出了一个外观显得低调的掩体，它的质量与两个洞口之间的交汇处开玩笑地被分解，同时加剧了人类和长颈鹿鳞片的碰撞。
The design team responded to the brief by proposing a shelter that assumed an understated external appearance, whose mass was playfully broken down with intersecting roof forms that articulated the junction between the two dens whilst accentuating the collision of human and giraffe scales.
通过内部卷的一节进行了研究，以适应若干职能和业务重叠，以及居住者规模的差异。
Studies were made through section of the internal volumes to accommodate a number of functional and operational overlaps, and the disparity in scale of its occupants.
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从地面到天花板从3米上升到10米，人类进入了饲养员的区域，在屋顶的最低点。海拔高度是设计的一个关键的正式司机，考虑到6米门的比例与整合的人门和牧师窗口。
The floor to ceiling rises from 3 to 10 meters, with humans entering into the keeper’s area at the low point of the roof. The elevations were a key formal driver of the design with careful consideration given the proportions of the 6 metre doors with integrated human door and clerestory windows.
由于长颈鹿的功能和生理需求的变化，灵活性是庇护所的首要目标。可移动的门和墙壁允许空间被改变。四个滑动的外部门向不同的庭院开放，可以配置为允许长颈鹿单独漫游的区域。饲养员和兽医使用夹层水平观察长颈鹿并与之互动。它还允许小游客群安全地观看长颈鹿。
Flexibility was a primary objective of the shelter – due to the changing functional and physiological needs of the giraffe. Moveable doors and walls allow the space to be transformed. The four sliding exterior doors open to different yards that can be configured to allow for separate roaming areas for the giraffes. Keepers and vets use the mezzanine level to observe and interact with the giraffes. It also allows for small visitor groups to safely view the giraffes.
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在预算紧张的情况下，有人认为，可以利用当地来源的材料和当地建筑方法的简单、简约的调色板来建造一个独特、适合用途的住房。(鼓掌)
Working to a tight budget, the view was taken that a unique, fit for purpose shelter could be produced using a simple, reduced palette of locally sourced materials and vernacular construction methodologies.
Architects Monk Mackenzie, Glamuzina Patterson
Location Auckland Zoo, 99 Motions Road, Western Springs, Auckland 1022, New Zealand
Category Zoo
Design Team Hamish Monk, Aaron Paterson, Dominic Glamuzina, Miguel Machado
Project Year 2013
Photographs Mark Smith, Jonny Davis