海下游客中心

公司：	香港建筑署	Type：	建筑
Area：	中国香港	Label：	游客中心

海下游客中心位于香港东北的西贡西郊野公园，为树林所环抱，有行山径连接附近那拥有丰富海洋生物的海下湾海岸公园。中心设有多用途室，接待处，管理员办事处，游客洗手间等设施，接待前往海岸公园的游客。中央草坪可供集合和户外活动，多用途室外的有盖空间可用作小组活动或学习。而林荫下的草地，则是休憩及郊游的好地方。

The Hoi Ha Visitor Centre is located within a beautiful woodland in Sai Kung West Country Park near the Hoi Ha Wan Marine Park, a scenic sea area with diverse marine lives in northeast Hong Kong. It is connected to the waterfront by a country trail along the mangroves. The Centre comprises a multi-purpose room, a caretakers’ office, reception area, lavatories for visitors and supporting facilities. It serves to introduce the Marine Park to visitors before they proceed to the waterfront via the trail. The buildings in the Visitor Centre embrace a central lawn, where gathering and activities for large group of visitors take place. Sheltered outdoor spaces are also provided around the multi-purpose room, where small group activities and learning could be flexibly conducted amid the nature. The lawns surrounding the buildings with trees as natural shade also serve as ideal places for picnic and leisure at all times.

设计概念是于西贡的美丽郊外，创造一个有如传统村庄，有机地与自然融合的聚落。建筑配置以现有的草坪为中心，它既是户外活动的地方，也是促使建筑与自然互动的空间。多用途室以玻璃亭子的模式设计，面向中心草坪，连贯室内外空间。它与其他建筑物，及周边各式的回廊和庭园紧凑地交织在一起，重新演译传统聚落及小镇的气氛。

The idea of responding to this beautiful countryside of Sai Kung is to create a rural settlement in the manner of an old traditional village with individual buildings that are organically related to the surrounding landscape. The focus of the architectural composition centres on the existing lawn which forms a plateau for outdoor gathering and as a place of mediation between buildings and nature. The multi-purpose room, designed as a glass pavilion facing the heart of the village, relates directly to the lawn as a form of continuity between inside and outside. Together with the caretaker’s office and other service areas, this small-town like atmosphere with different varieties of veranda and small courtyard spaces, closely knitted together to form a comprehensive character of a locus that reinterprets the idea of old traditional village in a new manner.

中心设置了可持续发展的设施，配合自然环境，亦向游客示范相关建筑科技。设施包括：太阳能电板及柱灯，补助用电；雨水收集及循环再用系统。此外，因附近并无城市排水系统，中心设置了生物污水处理系统，自行处理制造的污水。办事处及多用途室都设可开的窗户促进自然通风，包括多用途室的破璃趟门，可让游客更接近大自然。

Situated in the country park, the project adopts a number of sustainable measures to reduce impact to the nature, while demonstrate to visitors on the related building technologies. Solar panels and solar bollard lights are installed to contribute to the Centre’s electricity needs; Rain water collection system is adopted, which recycles rain water for flushing and irrigation use. Besides, due to the remoteness from the urban area, the site is not reached by the city’s main sewage system. A small-scale bio-treatment plant is therefore provided, all waste water generated in the centre is treated locally in a biological way. Operable windows are provided in caretaker’s office and multi-purpose room, including the large sliding glass doors between the multi-purpose room and the peripheral sheltered spaces. They enable natural ventilation when weather permits, and allow users’ close contact with the natural environment while enjoying the facilities in the Centre.