客 戶：英國文物遺產(chǎn)管理署

完工日期：2013年12月

建設(shè)成本：2,700萬英鎊

建筑面積：1,590平方米

攝 影：Peter Cook, James Davies

Client: English Heritage

Completion Date: December 2013

Cost: ￡27M GBP

Gross Floor Area : 1,590m2

Photographers: Peter Cook, James Davies

巨石陣是世界上最重要的考古遺址之一，每年接待將近一百萬游客。新展館和訪客中心的設(shè)計方案要恢復(fù)這個如同人類歷史紀念碑式的古老遺址應(yīng)有的尊榮。

該項目不僅要滿足聯(lián)合國教科文組織對于世界遺產(chǎn)遺址的重要管理要求，設(shè)計還對訪客中心的設(shè)施進行更新，使新的展館能夠更好地詮釋巨石陣的歷史意義，并在處理建筑、景觀和巨石的關(guān)系上，使建筑形式弱化，融合在周圍的景觀之中，使游人的視線專注在巨石群上。

訪客中心的建筑元素簡潔輕盈而特別，和周圍自然景觀如同共生，不去分享巨石陣所擁有的榮耀。細長高挑的棱柱支撐起無反射金屬屋頂，覆蓋在下面為游客準備的各種服務(wù)設(shè)施。屋頂邊緣的孔板使陽光滲入展館，教育設(shè)施則設(shè)置在一對單層立方體中，其中一個是玻璃材質(zhì)，另一個是純木做成的。

展館和訪客中心的選址位于巨石陣西面2.5公里處，人們從遺址所在地看不到訪客中心。游覽專車往返于遺址和訪客中心，接送前來參觀的游客。

Stonehenge is one of the world’s most signi fi cant archaeological sites, and receives close to one million visitors each year. The scheme for the new exhibition and visitor centre restores a sense of dignity to the treasured ancient monument.

Ful fi lling several important aims in the management of the UNESCO World Heritage Site, the scheme includes improved visitor facilities, better opportunities for interpretation of the stones and the wider site, and most importantly, a substantially improved landscape setting in which to appreciate Stonehenge.

The architectural composition of the centre is simple yet distinctive, sensitive to its surroundings and to the signi fi cance of the monument. Supported by slender angled stick columns, a nonre flective metal roof shelters various visitor amenities. Its edges are perforated to dapple the light reaching the exhibition and education facilities housed below in a pair of single-storey cubes, one glass and the other timber.

Sited 2.5km to the west of the stones, the exhibition and visitor centre is not visible from the monument; a low-key transit system transports visitors to and from the stones.