北园公园位于新会会城中心园林区，曾作为新会动物园使用。建筑基地位于公园南侧，与车水马龙的公园东路仅一墙之隔，东面比邻城市居住区。从场地的南北剖面看，基地处于北园公园和马山公园两座山丘所夹的谷地之间，向北逼近山麓，为新会北门窑址；向南望之蔚然，则是马山公园；场地的西南与新会学宫遥相对望。根据公园的规划设计，这块场地将进行“拆围透绿”，并围绕着山体南麓的北门窑址遗迹，建成一个兼具公园管理、文化展陈和市民休憩的构筑物。

Beiyuan Park once used as Xinhui Zoo is located in the central garden area of Xinhuihui City .The construction site is located on the south side of the park and separated from the busy Gongyuan East Road by a wall, and adjacent to the urban residential area on the east. From the north-south section of the site, the site is located between the valleys sandwiched by the two hills of Beiyuan Park and Mashan Park.The foothills to the north of the site are the north gate kiln site of Xinhui. The verdant mountain to the south of the site is Mashan Park. According to the planning and design of the park,  the original walls will be remove,  a building that combines management, exhibition and recreation will be build  around the site of the Beimen Kiln Site.

▼建筑外观，external view of the project ©翁子添

瓦坡奇趣 the Fun of Pitched Roofs

登上马山西侧山腰眺望新会圭峰山，被山体高举的视线，使得新会学宫几片坡屋顶呈现延绵的气势，琉璃碧瓦在阳光下熠熠生辉，若碧海惊涛。“碧山瓦海”的情境成为本设计的起点——建筑围绕坡屋顶与人之间的位置关系展开情境演绎。而红砖墙体和琉璃绿瓦的运用，则是为了取得与学宫风貌的协调。

When we climbed to the west side of Mount Ma and looked at Xinhui Guifeng Mountain, as our sight became higher, we would see the continuous pitched roofs of Xinhui Academy. These pitched roofs are like ocean waves in the sun. The sence of “Green mountains and waves of tiles” became the starting point for design thinking. Around the position relationship between the pitched roof and people, the building will develop a situational design around the positional relationship between the pitched roof and people. The use of red brick walls and green tiles in this design is to coordinate with the style of the palace.

▼建筑鸟瞰，aerial view of the building ©翁子添

▼碧瓦屋顶掩映在树林之间，green tiles in the grove ©翁子添

身处坡脊，视平线下的斜坡面将一片“瓦海”横陈于眼前；脊上活动，又被坡外之人返视成飞檐走壁的奇趣情境，诱人寻径登临。斜坡塑造的不稳定空间，区分出的坡面内外明暗、高下、前后空间判然。这一身体可感的空间变化，奏变出行游路径的趋景面向。当身处建筑前广场，延绵山势的立意，正好赋予坡屋顶明确的造型面向。坡外观者的视线沿着坡面，导向北园的郁郁葱葱的山林。

When the person is on the ridge of the roof, the pitched roof will show a sea of tiles in front of you. The scene of activities on the ridge is seen by people outside the pitched roof as a strange scene of flying over the roof, which would tempt people to find the way. The unstable space shaped by the slope distinguishes the difference in illumination and height inside and outside the slope. These different spaces that can be felt guide people towards the scenery. When people are in the square, the pitched roof just continues the momentum of the mountains .The viewer’s sight is guided by the pitched roof to the lush green mountain to the north.

▼路径与屋顶，path and roof ©翁子添