編譯/蘇琨峰圖文/Zaha Hadid Architects & Iwan Baan

國際化十足的香港，不但是個擁有多元歷史背景及景觀的世界樞紐，也是個著名寸金寸土的城市。在新大樓極力往上與天際爭地的同時，由札哈•哈蒂建築事務所（Zaha Hadid Architects）在當地所地所設計的純白色系、開放式並具有強烈空間感的賽馬會創新樓（Jockey Club Innovation Tower， JCIT），不但塑造出香港令人無法言喻的美麗天際線，更給居民一次全新的感官體驗。

高15層樓，總面積達15,000平方公尺的賽馬會創新樓，可說是完全融合於香港理工大學的校園之內。札哈•哈蒂曾表示，在努力延伸及演化的設計下，不僅讓賽馬會創新樓單成為香港理工大學的其中一個景觀，更嘗試透過它由校園演變出來的流體幾何結構，變成校園生活中不可分割的一部分。賽馬會創新樓提供了香港理工大學設計學院（Hong Kong Polytechnic University School of Design）及賽馬會社會創新設計院（Jockey Club Design Institute for Social Innovation）1,800多位教職員及學生在設計及創新教育課程上許多設施，像是設計工作室、實驗室、展覽室、多功能教室及交流廳等等。

過去50年來香港理工大學持續地發展其與城市融合的紋理，雖然各系所大樓不同，但在視覺上卻看的出其一致性；而賽馬會創新樓不但創造出一處城市新景觀，也富豐了大學生活的多樣化，其未來化的造型更像是一同與大學朝著未來的目標前進。位於大學東北方的賽馬會創新樓，現在不但已成為了校園生活的中心，更是籍由這棟大樓的創立鼓勵各系所發展不同的學習課程並互相交流課程及分享學習成果，同時也緊密地與社區、政府、產業及非營利組織等相互合作。

賽馬會創新樓不但擺脫了傳統的建築型式而改以流線型造型，在內外部也特地設計了一些可用做平時會面或交流的休閒空間，當然也少不了大型的展覽空間、工作室、劇場及休閒設施。在這開放性、透明性及空間連結性十足的大樓中，就像是在一處無學習阻礙的空間中學習，並在更佳的不同系所合作下，激發出對未來的學習方向。

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蘇琨峰／Andre

一隻喜愛新事物也對舊事物固執的牡羊。台北工專土木工程科、雲林科技大學營建工程結構組畢業，工作後決定離職前往澳洲再度充實自己並一圓留學夢，畢業於墨爾本大學經濟與商業研究所，主修商業與資訊管理。喜歡看建築、旅行探索、研究攝影、愛打網球、沉溺爵士樂當了爵士樂團薩克斯風手。目前為《欣建築／國際脈動》編譯、文字記者、辦理欣建築相關活動及國際領隊。

The Jockey Club Innovation Tower (JCIT) is home to the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) School of Design, and the Jockey Club Design Institute for Social
Innovation.

The 15-storey, 15,000 sq. m. tower accommodates more than 1,800 students and staff, with facilities for design education and innovation that include: design studios, labs and workshops, exhibition areas, multi-functional classrooms, lecture theatre and communal lounge.

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University campus has developed its urban fabric over the last 50 years with the university’s many faculties housed in visually coherent, yet very different buildings. The JCIT creates a new urban space that enriches the diversity of university life and expresses the dynamism of an institution looking to the future.

Located on a narrow, irregular site at the northeastern tip of the university campus (bordered by the university’s football ground to the south, and the Chatham Road/
Kowloon Corridor motorway interchange to the north), the JCIT is connected to the heart of the campus; encouraging the university’s various faculties and schools to develop multidisciplinary initiatives and engagement with the community, government, industry, NGO’s and academia.

The JCIT design dissolves the typical typology of the tower/podium into a more fl uid composition. Interior and exterior courtyards create informal spaces to meet and interact, complementing the large exhibition forums, studios, theatre and recreational facilities.

The tower’s design promotes a multidisciplinary environment by connecting the variety of programs within the School of Design; establishing a collective research culture where many contributions and innovations can feed off each other.

Students, staff and visitors move through 15 levels of studios, workshops, labs, exhibition and event areas within the school. Interior glazing and voids bring transparency and connectivity, while circulation routes and communal spaces have been arranged to encourage interaction between the many learning clusters and design disciplines.

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Andre

A male Aries, loves learning new things and being nostalgic to old things. Academic background: Bachelor of Construction Engineering Department at National YunTech University, Taiwan and Diploma of Graduate School of Business and Economics at University of Melbourne. With character of a little introvert, addicting to architecture, photography, tennis, Jazz music and saxophone and being the translator of Xin Architecture/ International, reporter, holder of activities and international tour leader.

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