Infinity Platform_Westkowloon Pavilion
无限舞台 | 香港西九龙观景亭
项目位置：香港特别行政区 | 中国
项目类型：构筑物单体建筑
占地面积：27,000mm X 9,000mm
竞赛成果：优胜奖
CONCEPT: 設計概念
Throughout the human history, whenever we design either a shelter or skyscraper, no matter it’s a temporarily gathering space or permanently living inhabitation we always facing the one solution, that is to create multiple surfaces. We created walls to block the wind; canopies to shade the sun; floors to reduplicate the usable grounds; stairs or lift to get you in-between vertical surfaces.
人類建造的歷史無論是設計小小的遮蔽物或者摩天大樓，無論是一個臨時聚集的場所或者長久的居所都離不開設計不同的界面。我們創造了墻遮蔽風雨，天棚遮擋日照，樓板增加可實用的面積，樓梯電梯在豎直的空間交通往來。
The inspiration of INFINITY PLATFORM Pavilion comes from the traditional East Asian folding fan, an ancient clever trick playing with space and surface, by folding and rearranging the location of each fan blade, the nature of a fan can shift between maximum density and maximum superficial area. The invention of traditional handicraft of folding fan could trace back thousand years in East Asia. It represented the eastern special philosophy.
無限舞臺的概念來自於古老東亞的折扇，這個古老的技藝是面積和體積變化最好的詮釋，通過每個扇片的轉動，可以在最小的體積和最大的表面積之間切換。這個古老的發明最早在東亞被發現并沿用至今，傳遍世界，是東方哲學的最好詮釋。
Instead of designing a pavilion with certainty of floors, walls and windows, the INFINITY FLATFORM Pavilion was design as a transforming architecture, eight floor slabs can swift from ceilings to stairs, from floors to canopies by just rotating around the core. Base on the event, the Platform can transform itself to maximum roof area with stairs access to the top to meet the demanding of a stage show concert; it can stretch out to multiple directions with maximum cantilever canopies to provide covering space as a shelter and maximum setting stairs as an amphitheater; It can be folding up becoming an observation deck on the top and a gathering space with setting area underneath.
無限舞臺的設計不是一個固定的建築體擁有固定的墻體樓板天花等的，無限舞臺是一個變化中的動態的建築。八個板狀結構可以從天花轉變成階梯，可以從樓板轉變成天棚，這些只用通過圍繞著核心轉動來完成。根據展亭功能的需要，無限舞臺可以展開形成最大的表面積承載表演舞台功能；可以展開形成最大的遮蓋天棚和層層退台的歇息平台；可以收攏形成一個觀景平台以及下方的開敞報告廳。
STRUCTURE 結構：
In STAGE2 of the design, we are looking deeply into the structural solution, trying to further study the structure base on tradition Chinese/ Japanese timber structure and mechanical engineering.
在項目深化設計的過程中，基於競賽的設計理念，我们深入研究了結構的可行性和解決方案，試圖從古代中國或者日本的木結構和機械構造中獲得靈感。
The structure was design into two isolated part.：
無限舞臺的結構體系設計成了兩個獨立的體系：
A modern lightweight steel structure system of the top floor supported with a central steel core and a Y column, together with a basement beams structure give it an integrated firm structure system. The slab was covered with timber façade and timber deck, and steel core is the vertical circulation. This modern light steel structure gives a 14m span and leave a shaded and covered area underneath.
一個現代的輕鋼結構，鋼結構由最頂部的一塊樓板和前後兩個支撐點組成，東側的鋼結構核心筒和西側的Y型鋼結構柱，核心筒承載了主要的垂直交通功能，聯通地基部分的鋼結構梁組成了一個整體結構，兩個支撐點之間懸挑14米左右給與了一個遮蔽而自由開放的底層空間。
A timber slabs stacking system. In the design of traditional Japanese Pagoda there is a design imbedded both the intelligence of ancient Asian timber work and the movability and flexibility of a mobilized building, the Japanese Pagoda layer by layer build upon a centralized core or pillar, each floor stacking on another, attached but not structurally connected, this structure gives the tower enough mobility to survive against earthquake and the pagoda was able to service for thousand years. The platform was but by purely timber structure with rails and wheels that they can move around the central core.
另一個是堆棧式的木結構體系。在傳統日式木塔結構中，有一個堅固而又靈活的結構體系一直深藏其中， 日式木塔每一層的木結構都圍繞核心柱一層一層堆砌而成，每一層結構相互堆疊而又不緊密連接，這給了木塔結構穩定而又靈活的結構體系，在地震的時候結構靈活性起到了作用，每層木塔可能發生旋轉和移動而結構不會損壞而使得木塔可以保持千年之久。所以無限舞臺的設計中每一層堆棧的樓板結構之間由輪組和軌道堆砌而成，每一層都可以環繞鋼結構核心筒轉動而不需要和主結構相連接。
MECHANICAL 機械可動：
Mechanical engineering solution came from another ancient trick from China, the legend southward cart was designed 5000 years ago, with a simple and effective method this device was able keep balance between two wheels, by carefully control the radiation between two wheels.
機械可動系統的解決方案也是來自於另一個古老的手工技藝，指南車在5000多年前就被發明，一個簡單而有效的機械解決方案可以使得兩個輪子之間永遠保持相同的旋轉角度。
Inspired by this simple and effective technique, A wheel and stopper system was installed under each slab to keep the rotation degree between every two slabs (refer to 1:1 detail model), each stopper can only rotate 15 degrees in the next rail of the nearby slab, and the force can be transfer from on slab to another.
由對這個技藝的研究，一個輪組滑軌系統和限位系統被設計在了堆棧木樓板結構中，每一個樓板下面都有輪組和導軌組成，每一片樓板之間的輪組都安裝有限位器，而將轉動保持在15度 （輪組和導軌系統請見1:1比例模型），而通過限位器，每一片樓板的轉動都將被傳到到相鄰的一片。
The INFINITY FLATFORM is an interacted building, by certain management people can change the form base on the whichever function that is in need. a handrail was invited into the lowest slab, the design was optimized that without and bearing or electric motor, the slab system can simply operate by push the handrail and the slabs will start to transform. Architecture is not permanent building that given by other people, architecture is an interactive art work.
無限舞臺也是一個互動的建築，通過合理的管理，遊客和使用者可以根據需要自己來參與改變建築的形態。最下面一片樓板伸出了一個扶手系統，不需要軸承的連接和電動引擎等現代複雜的機械設置，人們可以簡單通過向不同方向推動扶手而無限舞臺就會在不同形態之間開始轉化。建築不再是一沉不變，而是跟人一起互動的藝術。