중국 로컬 건축사무소, Trace Architecture Office가 디자인한 방문자센터는 공원을 방문하는 관람객들과 자연환경을 소개 및 연결해주는 건축적 장치로 제안된다. 71미터 길이의 단순한 박스형태의 구조물은 주변 나무를 연상시키는 소나무 거푸집을 사용, 따뜻한 질감을 연출한다. 주변 숲과 동기화하는 디자인 어휘로 적용된다.
A visitor centre designed by Trace Architecture Office for a park in Rongcheng, China, is a long and thin concrete bridge complete with a lighthouse-like viewing tower clad in wooden shingles.
Called Bridge House, the centre is located to the north-east of Swan Lake Park, Shandong Province, where it faces out onto the wetland landscape and backs onto a dense pine forest.
Swan Lake Park is popular with tourists, who come to watch swans migrating north in October. The local government decided to provide more facilities such as a cafe, toilets and viewing areas for visitors.
Beijing-based practice Trace Architecture Office (TAO) designed the visitor centre to minimise the building's impact on the park while still providing panoramic views.
The concrete structure was cast in-situ using pinewood formwork, bringing a texture to the interiors that helps to introduce some warmth and also responds to the nearby forest.
The simple concrete 71-metre-long structure sandwiches visitor services between two long viewing galleries, spanning soft soil and water.
from dezeen