项目名称：石水光游客中心

地点：埃德湖，德国

设计团队：Christoph Hesse Architects

建筑面积：1500 m²

竣工时间： 2023年

摄影：Laurian Ghinitoiu, Michael Meschede

设计特色：

项目 - Christoph Hesse Architects在德国埃德湖畔，通过石水光游客中心项目，打造了一处改变视角的文化空间。这座1500平方米的建筑巧妙地平衡了社会与生态可持续性，创造出一个突破传统游客中心设计的独特文化场所。

设计团队以埃德湖大坝为灵感，精心打造了一个象征性的"大坝剖面"，在这里，历史记忆与当代设计融合在一起。项目最引人注目的特色是其对大坝结构的创新诠释手法，将塔楼状结构重新构想为戏剧性的设计元素，展现大坝内部隧道和竖井的想象空间。这一概念不仅连接了埃德湖村庄的中心广场与大坝本身，还强化了水利设施在当地身份和历史中的核心地位。

室内建筑展现了对多层次空间体验的深刻理解，在公共功能与沉浸式展示之间取得平衡。底层和室外区域作为社区空间，促进聚会、教育和文化交流。游客通过一个开放且无缝连接的空间体验，先到达集散和休息区，然后下到博物馆层，在那里沉浸式灯光装置将大坝的历史生动地呈现出来。可步行的屋顶进一步丰富了体验，提供不同视角，展示大坝和周围自然景观。

石水光游客中心的与众不同之处在于它成功地将功能需求与富有诗意的设计灵感相融合。砖块和木材的材料选择既尊重周围景观，又确立了当代建筑的存在感。这个项目代表了文化设施设计的重要成就，将建筑转化为在德国农村地区创造反思、学习和连接的媒介。

这个项目展示了周到的设计如何将历史场所转变为滋养当代社区的有意义环境，为处于联合国教科文组织凯勒瓦尔德-埃德湖国家公园入口的文化建筑树立了新标准。

团队 - Christoph Hesse Architects成立于2010年，已发展成为德国最具创新力的建筑设计事务所之一，以其创造能够激发自我效能、协作和与自然深度连接的空间而闻名。这家工作室在德国科尔巴赫历史小镇和柏林设有办公室，凭借将根植于当地的身份认同与前瞻性视野相结合的设计理念获得国际认可。

该事务所专注于文化和生态项目，涵盖农村和城市环境，致力于促进这两个领域及其独特挑战和机遇之间的对话。他们的工作以两个类别为特征：视角改变者和系统改变者。"视角改变者"项目通过本地化干预来应对全球挑战，引发思考和行动；而"系统改变者"则专注于利用建筑作为系统性变革的催化剂。

在Christoph Hesse的领导下，事务所已为其创新方法获得了众多奖项，包括设计先锋奖、欧洲40位40岁以下建筑师奖、Architizer A+奖等。Christoph Hesse本人拥有苏黎世联邦理工学院和哈佛大学设计研究生院的建筑学硕士学位，曾在清华大学担任客座教授，目前在罗马大学教学。

工作室的设计方法将严谨的建筑规划与对用户体验的敏锐洞察相结合，特别擅长创造促进社区参与和环境意识的公共空间。他们在建筑界日益增长的影响力通过不断扩大的高端项目组合和在国际设计领域的持续存在得到证明，代表了建筑如何成为社会和环境转型的重要推动力。

Project Name: Stones Water Light Visitor Center

Location: Edersee, Germany

Design Team: Christoph Hesse Architects

Total Floor Area: 1,500 m²

Completion: 2021-2023

Photography: Laurian Ghinitoiu, Michael Meschede

Feature:

Project - Christoph Hesse Architects has completed their latest project - Stones Water Light Visitor Center at Lake Edersee, reinterpreting the concept of perspective-changing cultural space through contemporary design approaches. This 1,500-square-meter structure serves both as a visitor center and a thoughtfully crafted venue for exploring regenerative thinking and action.

The project's most distinctive feature is its innovative treatment of the Edersee dam concept. The design team transformed this symbolic structure into a spatial protagonist through a conceptual "section cut" through the dam, revealing imagined internal spaces of tunnels and shafts. This architectural metaphor not only connects the central square of the village of Edersee with the dam itself but also reinforces the water infrastructure's central role in local identity and history.

The spatial layout is carefully orchestrated, encompassing a multi-layered visitor experience. The ground floor and outdoor areas serve as community spaces, fostering gathering, education, and cultural exchange. Visitors are guided through an open and seamlessly connected spatial experience, leading to an information and lounge area before descending to the museum space, where an immersive light installation brings the dam's vivid history to life. The walkable rooftop further enhances the experience, offering different viewpoints that showcase both the dam and the surrounding natural landscape.

The project's uniqueness lies in its reconsideration of cultural facility design. Through materiality of brick and wood that respects the surrounding landscape while establishing a contemporary presence, the design team transformed the space into a place for reflection, learning, and connection. This project represents a significant achievement in cultural design, transforming architecture into a medium for creating moments of contemplation and engagement in Germany's rural landscape.

This is not merely a visitor center but a vivid lesson in how thoughtful design can transform historical sites into meaningful environments that nurture contemporary communities, setting a new standard for cultural buildings at the threshold of the UNESCO-listed Kellerwald-Edersee National Park.

Design Team - Founded in 2010, Christoph Hesse Architects has established itself as one of Germany's most innovative architectural practices, renowned for creating spaces that inspire self-efficacy, collaboration, and deep connections to nature. With offices in the historic town of Korbach and the contemporary creative hub of Berlin, the studio has gained international recognition for its design philosophy that combines deeply rooted local identity with a forward-thinking vision.

The practice specializes in cultural and ecological projects across both rural and urban contexts, fostering a dialogue that bridges these two realms and their unique challenges and opportunities. Their work is defined by two categories: Perspective Changers and System Changers. "Perspective Changers" projects address global challenges through localized interventions that spark reflection and action, while "System Changers" focus on using architecture as a catalyst for systemic change.

Under the leadership of Christoph Hesse, the firm has received numerous awards for its innovative approach, including the Design Vanguard Award, European 40 under 40 Award, and multiple Architizer A+ Awards. Hesse himself holds Master degrees from ETH Zurich and Harvard University Graduate School of Design, has served as a visiting professor at Tsinghua University, and is currently teaching at Sapienza University of Rome.

The studio's methodology combines rigorous architectural planning with keen insights into user experience, particularly excelling in creating civic spaces that foster community engagement and environmental consciousness. Their growing influence in the architectural sphere is evidenced by an expanding portfolio of premium projects and continued presence in international design discourse, representing architecture as a significant agent of social and environmental transformation.