极简为主，表现为辅

minimalism 1. – expressionism 0.

该政府办公大楼功能多样，它可以是档案馆、检测中心、员工食堂、商业街前咖啡馆，以及各种封闭或开放的办公空间。这样的设计不仅表现了建筑能够连接各类功能区间，也呼应了该混合型建筑由裙楼与塔楼连接而成。

The program for this local government building is diverse: document archives, testing laboratories, staff canteen, a commercial street-front cafe, and variety of closed and open office spaces. This suggests an architectural articulation of these programs. In addition, the typological hybrid suggests articulation of the perimeter building and the tower. 

然而，相比探索功能连接等表面性问题的解决方案，我们更需思考：不同功能之间如何划分区隔？裙房和塔楼的结合相较于二者独立能产生多少差异？我们又如何花最小的力气来适应差异？

为此，我们有两个主要的设计措施：一、统一规划幕墙，使其满足每一个不同区域的日照需求和遮阳性能标准；二、所有入口都通入中央庭院。

However, rather than exploring these obvious solutions, the questions posed were: What are the differences in the program? What are the differences generated by combining perimeter block and tower typologies? And finally, what is the least we need to do to engage with these differences?

The answer to this question brought about two design responses: firstly, a unified façade which fulfilled the performance criteria for solar access and protection for each of the different programs; and secondly, the location of the entries for all programs into the central courtyard space.

半公共庭院

semi-public courtyard

集中动线的策略不仅创造了一个半公共的户外空间，还方便了不同部门间的合作交流。午餐时分，围合的庭院还能提供活跃的就餐环境。

This centralized circulation strategy creates a semi-public outdoor space and provides opportunities for encounter and exchange amongst the different public departments. It also provides an active space for lunch in a protected courtyard landscape.

庭院还将通往南大门的公共人行道连通至步行桥的拟建位点再至庭院东北侧，这样的对角线路径也强调了庭院的“半公共性”。

The courtyard directly links the public footpath of the main southern entrance to a proposed future pedestrian bridge to the north east of the site. This diagonal shortcut further reinforces the semi-public nature of the courtyard.

异置的屋顶景观

roofscape as displaced landscape

为了引导员工走出大楼享受一番户外景色，我们将一层室内的地砖一路铺至庭院，并延伸到河边。这样的设计也为未来一楼开发更多公共/商业用途奠定稳健的基础。

To encourage the staff to get out of the building and enjoy the river frontage or the courtyard, the paving from the ground floor interiors flows directly into the courtyard and out to the river’s edge – a robust strategy for the future, when the ground floor develops more pubic and/or commercial programs.

在塔楼可俯瞰裙楼屋顶。该顶层有一座花园小亭，仿佛一座被“错置”的景观；员工食堂的门就开向此处，员工午餐，甚至是非正式会议，都可以在小亭子里进行。另外，还有一间机电房也被装扮成一座小亭。因而，整个顶层为租户提供了户外私人空间。

The tower overlooks the roof of the perimeter block and this space provides an opportunity for a major private outdoor space for the building tenants. A garden pavilion for staff lunches or informal meetings sits within a roofscape that presents as a displaced landscape. The staff canteen opens on to this roofscape. Plant rooms have been disguised as additional garden pavilions. 

比我们想象的更令人瞩目

more visible than we think

在商业和零售环境中，每一栋建筑都追求标新立异，在以广告及标牌为主的街景中，建筑已成为企业理念和营销活动的 “延续战场”–然而，或许一座简约优雅且沉静的公共建筑比我们想象的更令人瞩目。

In a commercial and retail environment where every building is trying hard to be seen as different from its neighbours, where advertising and signage are dominating streetscapes, where buildings are becoming extensions of corporate logos and marketing campaigns – a minimal, elegant and calm public building may be more visible than we think.