HERITAGE AND FINANCIAL CENTRE BO GANG
Knock it down and start from scratch.
拆除，蓋一個新的。
Unfortunately this is the standard for many large-scale developers around the world - knock it down, and build a large, better version. But is that always the right choice?
不幸的是，這是世界上許多大型建築開發商的標準工作程序：全部拆掉，之後構建一個更大，更好的版本。然而，這是否總是正確的選擇？
This is the same question that Architect Frederick Rickmann, ThinkingUrban, asked, when we were presented with the opportunity to design a modern financial centre in the middle of what now is an ancient village in Bo Gang - a city district of Hui Zhou in southern China. The challenge here was how to build something modern, without destroying a hundred years old cultural heritage. And the answered Architect Frederick Rickmann, ThinkingUrban, came up with was - Build on top of it.
當我們有機會在位於中國南方惠州市的一個古老村莊，柏崗村，設計現代金融中心時，Thinking Urban 的首席建築師 Frederick Rickmann 提出了這樣的問題。這個開發案的挑戰是如何在不破壞一百年歷史的文化遺產的前提下打造現代建築。然後，Thinking Urban 的建築師 Frederick Rickmann 提出獨特的解決方案：在柏崗文化遺產上方構建摩登的現代金融中心。
A building which almost doesn't touch the ground. While at ground level, the charming brick buildings of the original village of Bo Gang are renovated and rebuilt, a 6 storey financial centre will be built above. The new 30,000 m2 Financial centre is designed to step outwards every 2 storeys, thus allowing light to reach the ground level buildings. Thus the re-establishment of Chinese society is seen to evolve from the roots of the countryside and the work of the people who live there.
我們想要蓋一個幾乎不接觸地面的建築物。在地面上，將柏崗村原有的迷人磚砌建築進行「復舊如舊工法」的翻修和重建，在其正上方建造一個六層樓高的金融中心。新的三萬平方米的金融中心在每兩層樓的高度水平向外延伸，從而使光線可以照射到地面保留的建築物。如此一來，在此生活的後代子孫們將可以看到中國社會發展的脈絡，來自農村的根源以及古早時期居住在那裡的人們的工作、生活環境。
These maintain the spirit of the old street culture and to these are added other old buildings of note from the surrounding community. Buildings which would otherwise be lost to posterity.
如此一來，老建築為人們保存舊街道文化的精神，我們並計畫在社區附近加入其他著名的老建築修復工作，不這麼做的話，很快的，我們必將丟失可留給後代參觀回顧歷史文化的建築物。