Stonehenge 游客中心——反重力设计的 8 米高顶棚

Firm： m-ART Photography

Type： Commercial › Exhibition Center Cultural › Cultural Center Pavilion

STATUS： Built

YEAR： 2013

Photos： Martine De Flander (16)

Australian firm Denton Corker Marchalls - DCM - ’s solution for the visitor centre is in deliberate antithesis to the weighty monoliths. It is conceived as an 8m-high blade of a canopy, supported by a forest of 211 vertical and canted square-section columns, that oversails two main single-storey pods with a ticketing office between them. One steel-framed pod, clad in low-iron glass, contains a café, shop and education rooms; the other, timber-framed and clad in vertical planking of unfinished pre-weathered sweet chestnut, holds an exhibition space. An ancillary building containing stores and offices, and similarly finished in timber, hides behind a nearby hedge to the north. The centre is connected to the distant stones themselves by a fleet of 60-person-capacity “road trains” whose cabins are modelled on the Land Rovers that pull them.

PROJECT TEAM

Architect Denton Corker Marshall

Client English Heritage

Structural engineer Sinclair Knight Merz

M&E consultant Norman Disney & Young

Quantity surveyor Firmingers

Landscape architect Chris Blandford Associates

Project manager Gardiner & Theobald

Main contractor Vinci