沙漠中的孤舟：X AlUla沙漠游客中心

公司：	KWY.studio	类型：	建筑
地区：	沙特阿拉伯	标签：	休闲度假 \| 酒店

在Al Ula周围到处可见的一些最流行的结构包括了带有围墙的枣树种植园，并且有呈长方形，居中对齐的大门。棕榈树冠高耸在沙色的墙壁上方，我们可以想象其中凉爽的树荫，一个可以在周围干旱的沙漠中休息的地方。距乌拉（U Ula）不远的是沙特阿拉伯第一个以岩石切割的巨大坟墓为名的联合国教科文组织世界遗产Hegra。其中最显著在建筑风格兼收并蓄编织在精确切割的砂岩柱子，拱门和飞檐装饰中，是精美的设计和令人难以置信的工艺的典范。内部空间通常是被切石质量所定义的一种干净、精心雕刻的空隙，并且根据Meda’in Saleh的siq设计所展示的餐厅那样，有一个迷人的传统餐厅，三排长椅排成一排，用于举行年度宴会。

Some of the most prevalent structures found everywhere around Al Ula are walled date plantations, usually rectangular in shape with large, centrally aligned gates. With palm tree crowns peaking above the sand coloured walls, we can imagine the refreshing shade within, a place where one could rest from the surrounding arid desert. Not far from Al Ula is Hegra, Saudi Arabia’s first UNESCO World Heritage Site for its rock-cut monumental tombs. The most significant of these are decorated in an eclectic weave of architectural styles in precisely cut sandstone columns, arches and cornices: fine examples ofdelicatedesignandincrediblecraftsmanship.Interiorspaceisusuallyaclear,carved void defined by the mass of cut stone – and by Meda’in Saleh’s siq there is an intriguing traditional dining hall lined by three benches for holding annual banquets.

©Colin Robertson

访客中心是一栋简单的方形建筑，在隐秘峡谷（Hidden Canyon）的入口处经过精心分离设计，以此欢迎来访者参加首次沙漠X Al Ula展览：它提供了基本的便利设施，例如信息中心和咖啡馆，还有宽敞的阴凉庭院和室外的观景台。这是一个在空旷的沙漠中休息和寻找庇护所的地方，而其庭院则将天空和壮丽的景色尽收眼底。为数不多精确定位的窗户在峡谷上下创造了各种焦点，并增加了室内与无限之间的对比：是我们的尺度与我们与自然关系之间的一种表达。

The Visitor Centre is a simple square building, carefully isolated at the entrance of the Hidden Canyon welcoming visitors for the first Desert X Al Ula exhibition: it offers basic amenities such as an information centre and a café as well as a generously shaded courtyard and a viewing deck outside. It is a place to rest and find shelter in the open desert, while its courtyard frames views into the sky and the magnificent landscape. The few, precisely located windows create various focal points up and down the canyon and increase the contrast between the domestic and the unlimited: an expression of our scale and our relationship with nature.

©Colin Robertson

圆形的屋顶开口营造出一种特殊的氛围——完美的外形将岩石和天空框起来。院子的两个入口的视轴由透明门延伸到信息中心和咖啡厅：在这些空间中的每个相对的窗户都可以看到沙漠的全景。进入看似封闭的院子的那一刻，就是人们看穿建筑物的那一刻–尽管其大小和深度变得模棱两可，但立即有了空间和功能上的清晰度。

The circular roof opening creates a particular atmosphere - a perfect shape framing the rocks and the sky. The two entrances into the courtyard are viewing axis extended by the transparent doors into the information centre and the café: the opposing windows in each of those spaces giving a framed view back into the desert. The moment one enters the apparently enclosed courtyard is the very moment when one sees through the building – while it’s scale and depth is made ambiguous, there is an immediate spatial and functional clarity.

©Colin Robertson

平面图是对称且无方向性的，两个主要公共空间，每一个都可以从庭院两侧的中央进入。洗手间，员工和储藏室等设施位于庭院对角线的一角。建筑物的规格十分严格，并且在其空间和开口的所有尺寸上都反复出现：其结构网格很简单，尺寸一致的空间允许对结构进行重组，以备将来改变用途。

The floorplan is symmetric and nondirectional with each of the two main public spaces accessed from the centre of each side of the courtyard; facilities such as restrooms, staff and storage are located in the corner diagonal to the courtyard. The metric of the building is strict and reoccurring in all dimensions of its spaces and openings: its structural grid is simple, and the uniformly dimensioned spaces allow for the reorganising of the structure for a future change of use.

©Colin Robertson

Desert X Al Ula游客中心是一个结构适中的建筑，主要采用两种当地设计并快速建造，主要采用两种当地设计参考：一种是以围墙花园为原型，展现出以规则的对称几何形状和封闭的外观。第二种是构造清晰，并且似乎可以从实体中雕刻出空间简单的消减手法。访客中心是开放的：游客将得到参观风景和艺术品的体验。

Desert X Al Ula Visitor Centre is a modest structure, designed and rapidly built with mostly local materials, drawing from two local references: an archetypal walled garden, expressed in the ruled symmetrical geometry and enclosed appearance, and constructive clarity, with spaces appearing to be carved from a solid mass through simple subtractive operations. The Visitor Centre is open: visitors to the landscape and the art will complete the experience.