The Yardmaster’s Building by Mcbride Charles Ryan

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建筑是墨尔本南十字火车站的办公楼。一般来讲，这类公众服务性设施会做得比较务实和平凡，但是建筑师将这种为“公众”服务的自豪表达了出来，将建筑做成一个精致的“箱子”，宛如这附近的一颗明珠。

会有各种各样的用户到这栋建筑来，比如工会代表，还有管理人员和相应机构人员。因此建筑公共入口明了。整体有一个灵活简单的框架。外表皮的模式和设计让每个房间都有一个美观和特别的窗户。为了保证铁路运行，建筑采用场外预制，场内快速组装的方法。预制板的尺寸方便生产，运输，组装，还有不超出费用。外墙引入了双层预制混凝土预制组合系统。建筑出现在场地上，好像一直就在那里。窗户是密闭的，那是因为铁路环境的空气富含颗粒和污染烟雾。

一二层主要功能是更衣健身，三四层主要功能是办公。建筑外表皮的金属会随着时间而锈化，与周围的工业化痕迹完全融合。建筑是阴晴变化的，因为墨尔本的天气是这样，建筑可以反映天气。这个建筑是铁路领域建筑的一个新尝试。

The Yardmaster’s Building
Principal Architects: Rob McBride, Debbie Ryan
Project team: Drew Williamson, Andrew Hayne, Fang Cheah, Michelle James, Scott Crowe, Johanna Brunner,
Angela Woda, David Fraser
Size: 1350m2

Brief + Design:

The Yardmasters Building is an operations facility located on an island site within the Southern Cross Rail Yard. Typically, a service building inaccessible to the public like this would be treated in a pragmatic and  unremarkable way. In contrast, the Yardmasters Building confidently presents itself as a ‘public’ entity. Viewed in the round, it offers itself back to the city as an exquisite, mysterious box: a jewel in the junkheap.

The project involved extensive consultation with representatives of the diverse users, their respective union representatives, and management and associated authorities. So that the building’s public interface would not be contingent upon the inevitable machinations of this complex stakeholders mix, the planning was contained within a simple flexible shell. Internally, the building is robust and matter of fact. A rational system of glazing integrated with the repeated external pattern allowed each room to have at least one beautiful and exotic window. The cost and complexity of constructing within a rail environment is considerable.

To minimize rail disruptions, architectural value was maximized through off-site prefabrication. Panel sizes were geared towards optimising production, transport and assembly, allowing for costs to be carefullymanaged through design. Materials were chosen for their robustness and passive environmental performance, thereby minimizing maintenance requirements. The external walls are made from a double-skin precast concrete system requiring a combination of production processes not attempted before. On the external face, a simple tiling pattern was formed and the relief polished. As it ages, the patina of the façade will express its environment, as if it had always been there or simply emerged from the ground. Windows are sealed from airborne particles and the fumes of the rail environment.

 

This building is moody. With the Melbourne weather, these moods change rapidly. In providing interest and delight to the rail experience, this ‘Southern Crustacean’ is a building that says that public infrastructure matters and, by extension, that the public matter.

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