Dry Dock: A Sunken Container

A dry dock converted into a public space. It is a huge concrete trough, ten meters deep, with stepped sloping walls on both sides, and the original keel blocks for supporting ships still in place at the bottom; the dock gate is still visible. The bottom now serves as a sunken activity area or water feature, and the stepped sloping walls on both sides are used as spectator seating. From the ground above, one can immediately perceive its original scale. Avoid: filling the dry dock to create a flat plaza, covering the original sloping walls with new steps, removing the keel blocks and dock gate, adding large structures inside the dock that obscure its scale.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一座改成公共空間的乾船塢。它是一個深達十米的巨大混凝土凹槽,兩側是階梯狀的坡壁,底部原本放置船體的墊墩還留在原位;塢門仍然可見。現在底部成了一個下沉的活動場地或水景,兩側的階梯坡壁就是觀眾席。人從上方的地面往下看,可以一眼讀出它原本的尺度。避免:把船塢填平做成平坦的廣場、用新的階梯覆蓋原本的坡壁、拆除墊墩與塢門、在塢內加建大型構造物遮住尺度。